China secretly (and strangely) confesses to hacking US infrastructure
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At a secret meeting of December between the United States and China, Beijing officials claimed that for a widespread hacking campaign that endangered US infrastructure and endangered US officials, according to the Wall Street Journal. Due to President Donald Trump’s trade war, tensions between the two countries have increased sharply in recent weeks.
At public and private meetings, Chinese officials are typically firm in their denial of any offensive hacking charges. This makes the Chinese delegation in particular acknowledging that for many years of attacking water and electricity, ports and other US goals, the result of US policy support for Taiwan. Security researchers refer to the collective activity carried out by the Volt Tempry actor.
Meanwhile, the National Center for Monopoly and Security, along with FBI and Pentagon anti -monopoly services, has been warned this week that Chinese intelligence services are trying to hire current and former US federal staff by setting up private organizations such as consulting and thinking companies.
Citizenship and US immigration services announced on Wednesday that it was launching monitoring the activities of immigrant social media for signs of anti -Jewish activity and “physical harassment of Jewish people”. The agency, operating under the Ministry of Security of the Homeland Security, said such behavior would be a basis for “denying immigration’s profits”. This new policy is applied to people who apply for permanent residence in the United States, as well as students and other companies affiliated with “educational institutions related to anti -Semitic activities”. The move comes as immigration and customs execution, controversial arrests of pro -Palestinian student activists, including Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia University and Romisa Ozwurk of the University of Tufts, have made alleged antibody activities. Their lawyers deny the claims.
President Trump this week ordered a federal investigation into the former US cyber security and the director of Chris Karbas’s Infrastructure Security Agency. An executive guideline on Wednesday canceled Krebs Security clearance and also led the US Department of Security and the US Prosecutor General to conduct the investigation. Karbis was fired by Trump in November 2020 in his first term after Trump’s allegations of fraud in the presidential election of that year. Executives claim that Karbas violated the first amendment to government interference in freedom of expression by rejecting false allegations of elections during work.
In addition to eliminating the clearance of Krebs customs, the order also revokes anyone who works in the current Krebs employer, Sentinelone. The company said in a statement this week that “actively cooperated in any review of the security permits held by each of our staff”, stressing that the order would not lead to significant dysfunction, as the company only has a few employees with clearance.
The NSA Cyber Security Manager, Dave Lubre and Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Morgan Gaddamski will no longer speak at the RSA’s prominent security conference, which is set to begin on April 28 in San Francisco. They have appeared at the conference for the past two years. A source told NextGov/FCW that the cancellation of the IAEA restrictions on the trip is unnecessary. The RSA typically has top national security and cyber security officials alongside players and industry researchers. President Trump recently fired General Timothy Hawog, who was both the NSA and the United States.
