2023-05-25 04:24:57
The intelligence agencies of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have published a joint notice on Wednesday about the Attack on Critical US Infrastructure by China-Sponsored Hackers.
This advisory, which collects technical details, “highlights a recently discovered group of activity of interest associated with a state-sponsored cyber actor from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), also known as Volt Typhoon.” Private sector partners have identified that this activity affects networks in critical infrastructure sectors in the US, and the author agencies believe that the actor could apply the same techniques against these and other sectors around the world,” the statement read.
For its part, Microsoft has reported that it “has discovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the United States.” “The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon, a China-based state-sponsored actor who generally focuses on espionage and information gathering“, indicates the company, which has added that this campaign pursues the development of” capabilities that could interrupt the critical communications infrastructure between the US and the Asian region during future crises.
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