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The contingency plan comes amid heightened geopolitical tensions with the United States and its allies and follows an incident last year when a hacker claimed to have procured a trove of personal information on one billion Chinese from the Shanghai police.

The joint advisory, which also came from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its Japanese counterpart, urged firms to review the internet routers at their subsidiaries to minimise the risk of potential attack from the group.

Microsoft said the engineer's account had been penetrated by a hacking group it dubs Storm-0558, which is alleged to have stolen hundreds of thousands of emails from top American officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Military and civilian power grids, water supplies and communications may be threatened: New York Times

The Mandiant report accused a “China-nexus threat actor” of infiltrating the email systems of a wide range of government agencies, trade offices, and academic organizations.

Microsoft has said that Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised ‘critical’ US cyber infrastructure across numerous industries with a focus on gathering intelligence. They further claim that Volt Typhoon was behind the snooping

Insikt Group says RedGolf has close overlaps with groups tracked by other security companies under the names APT41 and BARIUM, suggesting a close affiliation.

The almost unnoticed hack of MiMi points to a growing trend of software supply chain attacks, including by the Chinese government.

FBI and MI5 leaders delivered a joint statement in which they warned that the Chinese Communist Party was the greatest threat to the international order.

News Corp, publisher of the Wall Street Journal , said Friday that hackers breached its system and stole data from journalists and other employees. A cybersecurity firm investigating...