US disrupts Chinese hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure‚ officials say
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US disrupts Chinese hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure‚ officials say

U.S. officials said on Wednesday they disrupted a sweeping Chinese cyber-spying operation that targeted critical American infrastructure entities and could be used against the United States in a future geopolitical crisis. The operation‚ conducted jointly by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI‚ weeded out malicious Chinese software from a network or "botnet" of hundreds of compromised U.S. routers‚ both agencies said in a statement. The U.S. and its key allies disclosed the Chinese...