Startling revelations from reliable sources point to a widespread, ongoing compromise of vital U.S. agencies. Local utilities, electrical grids, and oil and gas pipelines have all been the focus of deliberate attacks over the past year. Remain aware and watchful.
The Washington Post said that Alexandria Hoff of Fox News provided coverage of the attack that occurred in Washington on Tuesday morning.
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“It is very clear that Chinese attempts to compromise critical infrastructure are in part to pre-position themselves to be able to disrupt or destroy that critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict, to either prevent the United States from being able to project power into Asia or to cause societal chaos inside the United States — to affect our decision-making around a crisis,” According to WaPo, Brandon Wales, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the Department of Homeland Security, stated.
“That is a significant change from Chinese cyber activity from seven to 10 years ago that was focused primarily on political and economic espionage.”
The coordinated assault, dubbed “Volt Typhoon,” carried out by hackers connected to China’s People’s Liberation Army is a “broader effort to develop ways to sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific,” experts told the Post.
Remarkable information has surfaced indicating that a recent cyberattack targeted vital systems of significant US infrastructure. Accounts verify that critical natural gas and oil pipelines, the autonomous power system of Texas, a major West Coast port, and a water utility in Hawaii were all targeted. Thankfully, specialists have shown that the attack had no effect on the critical industrial control systems that run pistons, pumps, and other essential machinery.
The attention paid to Hawaii, the home of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and a significant West Coast port—which may be San Diego or Seattle-Tacoma, two locations of significant U.S. Navy installations—indicated, according to the officials, that the Chinese military is attempting to obstruct American mobilization capabilities “to complicate U.S. efforts to ship troops and equipment to the region if a conflict breaks out over Taiwan.”
It is alleged that a large number of the attacks were carried out, in order to evade detection, using harmless devices like internet routers in homes and offices. The Cybersecurity Collaboration Center director at the National Security Agency, Morgan Adamski, emailed WaPo to confirm that the attack “appears to be focused on targets within the Indo-Pacific region, to include Hawaii.”
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Regarding the assaults, Joe McReynolds, a China security studies scholar at the Jamestown Foundation, stated, “This is stuff they pretty clearly see as relevant to a Taiwan scenario.”
