U.S. Government Doubles Down on Chinese APT Warnings

At the Billington Cybersecurity State and Local Summit on Tuesday, U.S. government officials warned that the critical infrastructure security threat posed by Chinese state-sponsored actors could potentially have a very real and significant impact on state and local governments.

The federal government has been sounding off in a series of security advisories and hearings on Chinese threat actors' successful attempts to gain persistent, quiet access to critical infrastructure sectors across the country, particularly after the Department of Justice in January first exposed a widespread campaign carried out by Volt Typhoon.

Volt Typhoon has been burrowing in the networks of these various critical infrastructure entities in order to pre-position themselves for future potential attacks, said the government. Moreover, despite law enforcement announcing a limited disruption operation of Volt Typhoon earlier this year, the full extent of the threat actor's campaign is unknown, and government agencies are still unearthing victims.