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https://www.dw.com/en/us-uk-accuse-china-linked-hackers-of-spy-campaign/a-68664328

The US and UK officials on Monday accused hackers linked to
the Chinese state of being behind "malicious"cyber campaigns.

In London, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden told MPs that
attacks had compromised the electoral commission and UK
parliamentary accounts.

"Chinese state affiliated actors were responsible for two
malicious cyber campaigns targeting both our democratic
institutions and parliamentarians," he said. Attempts to
compromise the email accounts of UK lawmakers were
"unsuccessful," Dowden said.

The British government said in a statement that a part
of its GCHQ intelligence agency "assessed that the UK
Electoral Commission systems were highly likely compromised
by a Chinese state-affiliated entity between 2021 and 2022."
It also said that its intelligence operatives were "almost
certain" that the APT31 group "conducted reconnaissance
activity against UK parliamentarians during a separate
campaign in 2021."

In Washington, the Treasury Department said it sanctioned
Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company Ltd., which
it calls a Chinese Ministry of State Security front company
that has "served as cover for multiple malicious cyberoperations."

The Treasury Department named two Chinese nationals, Zhao
Guangzong and Ni Gaobin, affiliated with the Wuhan company,
for operations that targeted US critical infrastructure
sectors including defense, aerospace and energy.

. . .

So, it took them TWO YEARS to even figure out where
these attacks were coming from ???

What about the other 99.9% of the stuff they MISSED ?
Physical, financial, energy, security infrastructure ?
Sounds like the UK put effort into this only because it
directly inconvenienced some politicians.

The 'west' has to put serious effort into disentangling
itself from China and FAST. No pretending, the PRC *is*
an "enemy power". Disentanglement will be difficult and
require a lot of up-front expense. However there really
seems to be no choice. China/Xi are reaching peak-power
and clearly intend to DO things with that.

We will NOT like it.

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