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Typhoons in Cyberspace: The transformation of China’s digital attack capabilities is the most important change in the cyber threat to the West in more than a decade
The transformation of China’s digital attack capabilities is the most important change in the cyber threat to the West in more than a decade, writes Ciaran Martin.
Run by the cyber unit of the People’s Liberation Army, it involves putting preparatory implants – ‘digital booby traps’, as some have called them, into all manner of American critical infrastructure. To tell the story of how, in the words of the Wall Street Journal in January, “Chinese hackers graduated from clumsy corporate thieves to military weapons” it is necessary to look to the history of China’s cyber operations. Absent specific rules, governments are relying on the companies voluntarily to foot the bill for expensive backup plans for the resilience challenge, or even more costly equipment upgrades for the infrastructure ones.
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