China's Extensive Hacking Operation Targets U.S. Infrastructure

FBI and Justice Department Disrupt China-Backed Botnet Amid Warnings of Potential Real-World Harm to Americans

FBI Director Christopher Wray warns that China is ramping up an extensive hacking operation aimed at taking down the United States’ power grid, oil pipelines and water systems in the event of a conflict over Taiwan.
The Chinese hacking group, known as Volt Typhoon, has targeted a range of critical infrastructure systems, often by infiltrating small businesses, contractors or local government networks.
The FBI and the Justice Department announced that they had disrupted a botnet of hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home routers owned by private citizens and companies and hijacked by the Chinese state hackers.
China's hackers are preparing to cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has come to strike.
China has called the U.S. government’s allegations baseless. Beijing has accused the U.S. of “almost daily” and “huge amounts of intrusions against Chinese government.