Security News > 2022 > October > Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit
Three US national security agencies - CISA, the FBI and the NSA - on Thursday issued a joint advisory naming the 20 infosec exploited by state-sponsored Chinese threat actors since 2020.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation stated they collectively consider the People's Republic of China state-sponsored cyber activities as "Being one of the largest and most dynamic threats to U.S. government and civilian networks."
While CISA, the FBI and NSA were creating their top 20 vulns list, the Department of Defense was making another list.
The DoD list is of Chinese companies operating either directly or indirectly within the US during 2021, and which may appear to be civilian operations but are tied to the Chinese military.
The list already included many names that are also deemed separately as national security threats like China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom.
Cloudwalk and DJI are already on another list that bans any US financial support on grounds they are active participants in the repression and surveillance of China's Uyghur population.
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