China wants to target critical infrastructure like water facilities and energy grids, FBI director said
Chinese state-sponsored hackers have conducted widespread cyberattacks on critical American infrastructure in recent years, intending to give the country the ability to cause “a devastating blow” against the US, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“The fact is, the PRC [People’s Republic of China] targeting of our critical infrastructure is both broad and unrelenting,” he told a security conference in Nashville on Thursday, describing China’s hacking programme as growing in strength.
“It’s using that mass, those numbers, to give itself the ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing,” he added.
Last year, security analysts at Microsoft identified mysterious code linked to communications systems in Guam, the US territory in the Pacific with a massive strategic air base.
Officials believe the code was the work of Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group.
On the 225 in Denver Wednesday night, northbound, there was an enormous section of the road, at least five miles, where two lanes were closed. No workers working. None of the road was torn up. Just comes closing all but one lane for miles.
Traffic was at a crawl. I had passengers in my car and we crept along for maybe 15 minutes through this weird phantom “work zone”.
The weirdest part is that the google maps traffic data showed the whole stretch of road as solid green, despite the fact we were going like 5-10 mph with frequent stoppage in a 75 mph zone.
Covert Chinese Cones Cause Colorado Car Crawl!
Fuckin spectacular