US shorts China's Volt Typhoon crew targeting America's criticals

The US Justice Department and FBI may have scored a win over Chinese state-sponsored snoops trying to break into American critical infrastructure. Citing "two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter," Reuters claims the Feds' operations has been ongoing over recent months. Law enforcement obtained a …

[beast666]

I don't believe a word the American establishment or MSM say.

[cyberdemon]

And everything on tiktok, twatter and the shite-filled U-bend is truth, I suppose?

Or only if it agrees with your worldview (which in most cases is what gets shown to you on such targeted manipulation platforms)

[Casca]

Go and take your frog pills.

[TimMaher]

Re:- “frog pills”

Our frog refuses to share its pills with anyone.

The newts, in the meantime, just cruise beneath the water with their sunglasses on.

Too cool.

[Anonymous Coward]

Remotely disable aspects of the Chinese hacking campaign ö

Fighting defects in the underlying systems with PR waffle /s

[cyberdemon]

Re: Remotely disable aspects of the Chinese hacking campaign ö

This.

Not sure why someone downvoted you, but it bugs me how it is never portrayed as being the fault of the commercial operators of critical infrastructure who left the door open.

Domestic "teenage hackers" often get prosecuted and jailed for exploiting weaknesses for fun, when they are (often without damage) exposing and forcing closed those weaknesses which would otherwise be exploited by far more threatening enemies