Combatting “cyber and other threats posed by the People’s Republic of China” is a top priority for the Department of Homeland Security through the end of 2025, according to a guidance document the department released last Thursday. The document describes a “whole-of-society effort” to protect critical infrastructure from outside threats, and China is at the top of the list.
” In a speech at the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats, Wray said hackers with the cyber group Volt Typhoon had breached several American companies in the telecom, energy, and water sectors. DHS established a China Working Group in 2020 to address the “intensifying threat” of China’s “malign activity in the trade, cybersecurity, immigration, and intellectual property domains,” then-acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said at the time.