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The US government’s cybersecurity agency CISA is ramping up the pressure on defenders to find and remove malware artifacts planted by Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-backed hacking group that has burrowed deep into thousands of organizations around the world.

“[We] have confirmed that Volt Typhoon has compromised the IT environments of multiple critical infrastructure organizations in the continental and non-continental United States and its territories, including Guam,” CISA said in an advisory, warning that the hacking team’s choice of targets and pattern of behavior is not consistent with traditional cyber espionage or intelligence gathering operations.
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CISA: China’s Volt Typhoon Hackers Planning Critical Infrastructure Disruption