(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Hackers purportedly affiliated with CCP-controlled China reportedly may have installed malware that could cause havoc at U.S. military installations as well as within America’s critical infrastructure generally.
The rogue computer code, which apparently was initially detected within the Guam telecommunications systems in May, is comparable to “a ticking time bomb,” an unnamed source in the U.S. Congress told the New York Times in one of about 12 interviews conducted for its detailed report.
Guam is the site of large USAF base.
According to the Times, the cyberattack culprits could be working with China’s People’s Liberation Army in the context of preventing U.S. forces from promptly backing Taiwan, at least theoretically or potentially, in the event of a PLA invasion.
“The discovery of the malware has raised fears that Chinese hackers…have inserted code designed to disrupt U.S. military operations in the event of a conflict, including if Beijing moves against Taiwan in coming years.,” the Times explained.
As alluded to above, the threat to “networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases in the United States and around the world” could be more far reaching “because that same infrastructure often supplies the houses and businesses of ordinary Americans,” the Times asserted.
The Biden administration is supposedly on the case, however, and IT techs are in the process of locating and deleting the code, the discovery of which has prompted high-level meetings at the White House about what to do going forward.
Congress, some state governors, and utility companies have also been notified about the alleged cyber sabotage risk.
Ominously, the unidentified U.S. officials that the Times spoke with for the report admitted that “they do not know the full extent of the code’s presence in networks around the world, partly because it is so well hidden.”
Senior Biden national security officials also reportedly have been unable to reach a consensus about whether China’s end game is to disrupt the U.S. military or “civilian life more broadly in the event of a conflict.”
The Axios news outlet noted that “The Times‘ report is the latest warning that China-backed hackers are getting savvier.”
This Times investigation comes at a time when a U.S. Air Force general says he is prepping his approximately 100,000 troops for war with China in the next couple of years.
The foreshadowing of a geopolitical crisis in the making is occurring while the Pentagon is experiencing recruitment woes, perhaps because of its obsession with prioritizing disunifying diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives over military readiness.
In the meantime, the Biden regime has authorized a $345 million military assistance package for Taiwan.
The expansionist, authoritarian Chinese Communist Party obviously continues to exert economic, political, cultural and military influence all across the globe rather than just in the Asian theater.
Through its D.C. embassy, China denied engaging in hacking in response to the Times article.
