“China’s cyber-espionage operations have included compromising telecommunications firms, providers of managed services and broadly used software, and other targets potentially rich in follow-on opportunities for intelligence collection, attack, or influence operations,” the intel agencies warn. The latest annual threat assessment (PDF) from the US intelligence community, presented to Congress this week, warns that “China presents a prolific and effective cyber-espionage threat, possesses substantial cyber-attack capabilities, and presents a growing influence threat”. Threat intelligence experts quizzed by The Daily Swig said that Chinese state-sponsored attackers are at the forefront of developing new or novel hacking techniques.įor example, supply chain attacks have long been a method of compromise by China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) groups on different targets, predating the now-infamous SolarWinds attacks supposedly pulled off by Russian threat actors last year. Beijing adopting supply chain tactics and greater sharing of resources between spying groups, experts warnĪNALYSIS China’s long-established cyber-threat groups have been building up a huge arsenal of resources, comprising both publicly available and customized tools, and diversifying their repertoire amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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