The U.S. Navy was 'impacted' by Chinese state-backed hackers, which targeted infrastructure in the U.S. and Guam in an attack first flagged by Microsoft.
Del Toro said the U.S. Navy "has been impacted" by the cyberattacks, adding that it was "no surprise that China has been behaving in this manner, not just for the last couple years, but for decades."
Microsoft issued a warning Wednesday as did intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the cybersecurity agencies of four other nations. The warnings alerted corporate and public enterprises that a sophisticated Chinese state-backed hacking group had successfully exploited a vulnerability in a popular cybersecurity suite.
The hacking group appears to have been focused on surveillance, rather than disruption, Microsoft said. But top intelligence officials and researchers expressed concern that Guam had been targeted, tellingthat the island territory would be crucial to fending off a long-feared invasion of Taiwan by China.
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