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China-backed Volt Typhoon hackers have lurked inside US critical infrastructure for ‘at least five years’
China-backed hackers have maintained access to US networks for "at least five years” with the goal of launching “destructive” attacks
China-backed hackers have maintained access to American critical infrastructure for “at least five years” with the long-term goal of launching “destructive” cyberattacks, a coalition of U.S. intelligence agencies warned on Wednesday. Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored group of hackers based in China, has been burrowing into the networks of aviation, rail, mass transit, highway, maritime, pipeline, water, and sewage organizations — none of which were named — in a bid to pre-position themselves for destructive cyberattacks, the NSA, CISA and FBI said in a joint advisory published on Wednesday. On a call on Wednesday, senior officials from the U.S. intelligence agencies warned that Volt Typhoon is “not the only Chinese state-backed cyber actors carrying out this type of activity” but did not name the other groups that they had been tracking.
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