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US disrupts China-backed hacking operation amid warning of threat to American infrastructure

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FBI director says China’s hackers are preparing to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US systems The U.S. government announced Wednesday it had disrupted a China-backed hacking operation targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, amid warnings that Beijing is preparing to cause “real-world harm” to Americans in the event of a future conflict. Speaking during a U.S. House of … Read more

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key

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Microsoft stated in June {that a} China-backed hacking group had stolen a cryptographic key from the corporate’s techniques. This key allowed the attackers to entry cloud-based Outlook e-mail techniques for 25 organizations, together with a number of US authorities companies. On the time of the disclosure, nevertheless, Microsoft didn’t clarify how the hackers had been … Read more