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 China's digital armed force is attacking basic U.S. administrations

A utility in Hawaii, a West Coast port and a pipeline are among the casualties in the previous year, authorities say

By Ellen Nakashima and Joseph Menn

December 11, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST

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The Chinese military is inclining up its capacity to disturb key American framework, including power and water utilities as well as correspondences and transportation frameworks, as per U.S. authorities and industry security authorities.

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Programmers partnered with China's Kin's Freedom Armed force have tunneled into the PC frameworks of around two dozen basic elements throughout the last year, these specialists said.

The interruptions are essential for a more extensive work to foster ways of planting frenzy and disorder or growl coordinated factors in case of a U.S.- China struggle in the Pacific, they said.

Among the casualties are a water utility in Hawaii, a significant West Coast port and no less than one oil and gas pipeline, individuals acquainted with the episodes told The Washington Post. The programmers likewise endeavored to break into the administrator of Texas' power matrix, which works autonomously from electrical frameworks in the remainder of the country