The Biden administration has gone all out this year to warn China to back off its hacking campaigns on U.S. computer networks. China doesn’t appear to be listening.
While the U.S. usually is reticent to discuss cyberattacks or even directly assign blame to nation-states for hacks, it has been notably public in its censure of China since a Chinese-government-linked hacking group called Volt Typhoon was disclosed to be inside U.S. networks last year.
At the same time, U.S. federal agencies and critical infrastructure companies have been racing to seal off key computer networks — like those undergirding power grids and transportation hubs — from the Volt Typhoon hackers.