On Wednesday, Microsoft revealed in a blog post that it’s tracked a group of what it believes to be Chinese state-sponsored hackers who have since 2021 carried out a broad hacking campaign that’s targeted critical infrastructure systems in both US states and Guam, including communications, manufacturing, utilities, construction, and transportation. The intentions of the group, which Microsoft has named Volt Typhoon, may simply be espionage, given that it doesn’t appear to have used its access to those critical networks to carry out data destruction or other offensive attacks.

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