China plans cyber-attacks on United States, CIA warns
The Chinese military is building the capability to launch massive attacks on US information networks to cripple American military capabilities in time of crisis, the CIA warns in a classified report.
One US official familiar with the report says, “the Chinese government is actively and aggressively working on their cyber-war capability. They have a lot of people and a lot of brainpower, and they’re smart enough to appreciate that a significant aspect of any future armed conflict is going to be cyber in nature.”
US intelligence believes that Beijing does not yet have the capability to do serious, sustained damage to the most sensitive American computer systems, but could be disruptive or destructive to important but less sensitive military computer networks. The CIA envisions a Chinese cyberattack on the US as part of a possible military attack on Taiwan.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “the United States has resisted publicly linking the Chinese government to those attacks or to broader cyber-style warfare.”
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