State-sponsored hackers from China have been targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, cybersecurity officials from around the world, including Canada, warned Wednesday in a co-ordinated effort to root out the perpetrators.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security was just one of several international agencies, all of them part of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, that took part in amplifying the alert issued by the U.S. National Security Agency.
The discovery of what the NSA described as “indicators of compromise” was first made by Microsoft and attributed to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state actor that the company said has been active since mid-2021….