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The White House paid special attention to this case. President Biden fears some states may try to overturn the November election, according to the source. These fears are not unfounded, considering the chaos caused by cyber attacks in the country’s corporate sector, at least in 2023.

Reportedly Volt Typhoon hacking group, which has been at the center of recent malicious activitiesespecially worried intelligence representatives. This is part of a larger effort to compromise the West’s critical infrastructure, including sea ports, internet providers and utilities.

As Reuters writes, the large-scale nature of the hacking attacks led to a series of meetings between the White House and representatives of the private technology industry, including several telecommunications and cloud companies, and the US government asked for help tracking these attacks. activity.

According to national security experts, thanks to the successful penetration of enemy networks China may remotely disable critical facilities in Indo-Pacific regionwho in one way or another support or serve U.S. military operations. This pressure could be used by a communist government to undermine U.S. preparedness in the event of an invasion of Taiwan.

So far, neither the Justice Department, the FBI, nor the Chinese Embassy in Washington have commented on the situation.

Volt Typhoon usually takes control of many vulnerable digital devices such as routers, modems, security cameras connected to the internet. All this allows them to hide further attacks on real targets.

The Chinese take control of a camera or modem that is geographically close to a port or internet service provider, and then use this to direct their intrusion to the real target. According to the IT team working on the next stage, it looks like an ordinary user sitting next to
– says one of Reuters’ interlocutors.

When Western countries first warned about Typhoon Volt in May, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said the hacking allegations were a “collective disinformation campaign” by the Five Eyes countries. These are the countries that exchange intelligence – the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain.