Posted on 04/18/2024 9:51:06 PM PDT by bitt
Chinese hackers are preparing to launch a major attack on critical U.S. infrastructure and have already infiltrated multiple companies according to the FBI.
FBI Director Chris Wray revealed today China is developing the capability to cause significant damage to our critical infrastructure at a time of their choosing. The only question is the time to launch a catastrophic blow.
“China is developing the ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing,” Wray said at the 2024 Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. “Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic.”
According to Wray, an ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has successfully infiltrated several American companies in telecommunications, energy, water, and other critical sectors. 23 pipeline operators are being targeted.
According to Reuters, Wray went on to note that China’s hackers operated a series of botnets, which are constellations of compromised personal computers and servers around the globe to hide their nefarious cyber actions. Private sector American technology and cybersecurity companies previously attributed Volt Typhoon to China, including reports by security researchers with Microsoft and Google.
Reuters reports that a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson claimed the Volt Typhoon was unrelated to China’s government but is a criminal ransomware group.
China’s Embassy in Washington released the following statement in response to the MFA spokesperson’s comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
This Typhoon group isn’t some new election year group, it was involved an a big attack a few years back and attacks on hospitals.
Shut up, they explained.
March - December 2020 : (Solarwinds Orion Cyberattack, one of the biggest cyberattacks in US history unnoticed by CISA director Chris Krebs who was fired in Nov 2020 - ) According to CNBC:
The scale of a sophisticated cyberattack on the U.S. government that was unearthed this week is much bigger than first anticipated. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a summary Thursday that the threat “poses a grave risk to the federal government.”
It added that “state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations” are also at risk.
CISA believes the attack began at least as early as March. Since then, multiple government agencies have reportedly been targeted by the hackers, with confirmation from the Energy and Commerce departments so far.
“This threat actor has demonstrated sophistication and complex tradecraft in these intrusions,” CISA said. “Removing the threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging.”
and just think of what our military "forces" have become...a hot mess with trannies, fatties, gays, lesbos, idiots, and criminals...
we are set to be taken over....there are so many military aged men in this country illegally....all ready to go...
It sure would have nice if the big tough he-man FBI agents were chasing Chinese hackers instead of J6 patriots.
Last year’s Volt-Typhoon alert:
BREAKING: China Hacks Critical U.S. Infrastructure, Microsoft Says
Breaking 911 ^ | May 24, 2023
Posted on 5/24/2023, 4:17:52 PM by McGruff
Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States. The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China that typically focuses on espionage and information gathering. Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.
Volt Typhoon has been active since mid-2021 and has targeted critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and elsewhere in the United States. In this campaign, the affected organizations span the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. Observed behavior suggests that the threat actor intends to perform espionage and maintain access without being detected for as long as possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at breaking911.com
No obviously. But we must keep reminding ourselves, and the moronic Qtard trump cultists, that he is an arrogant buffoon who BLEW his likely only chance. And if he does get in by some miracle, he needs to surround himself with good people who are not grifting moronic weak stupid traitorous backstabbers and incompetents.
People need to be ready.......
Nothing is beneath those who hate America and wish to and are trying to destroy it.
Ordinary people are just collateral damage to them. Human lives and suffering means nothing to them.
There is the population of the United States, a constitutional republic, and there is the current regime. One is hostile to the Constitution. Guess which?
There is a cabal or traitors and Chinese Communist/Putin/Iran supporters and propagandists here.
And those men will have to face almost instantly a rifle behind every blade of grass and a pistol in every pocket.
China’s #1 target is the same as all combatants in war: energy production and manufacturing. The Left has been promoting their ambitions and aiding them for decades. See: Global Warming
Translation: The FBI is going to attack our infrastructure and blame it on the Chinese.
I sort of trust the first, listed; but I do not know how much, visiting the latter 2 on the following list, may cost the user - given the extreme paranoia of left-wing DHS/DoJ/FBI (all three of which, seem to be at the end of a leash controled by the Southern Poverty Law Center and readers of the New York Times):
CVE Vulnerabilities by Date
https://www.cvedetails.com/browse-by-date.php
Cybersecurity Alerts & Advisories
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories
Significant Cyber Incidents
Center for Strategic & Interneation Studies CSIS
https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/significant-cyber-incidents
I trust this wanker Wray as far as I could throw him.
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What’s he whining to Congress about it for, it’s his job to stop the infiltration taking place on his watch? I hold him accountable for any and all sabotage by the Chinese. Get to work you sick bum and start fighting, identifyiing, and locking up Communists instead of chasing and locking up J-6 patriots who you have labeled terrorists.
I share your distrust, but in this case, Wray is speaking truthfully.
Infrastructure systems are highly networked, and thus vulnerable. A lot of them use systems called SCADA. These systems enable remote operations without having human operators onsite. They used to be segregated networks. Some Haavaad Bidness School genius got the bright idea of linking the SCADA systems to corporate enterprises.
Look up STUXNET.
True dat.
Didn’t see your post before I made mine (#37) below.
At least a few of us are awake. :-)
I do not wish bad things on America, but with all of the Godless things going on I can sympathize with the remark.
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