Security News > 2023 > June > China's cyber now aimed at infrastructure, warns CISA boss

China's cyber-ops against the US have shifted from espionage activities to targeting infrastructure and societal disruption, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly told an Aspen Institute event on Monday.

"PRC actors have been in the spotlight for years and years, the key difference here was for PRC actors the focus has been espionage," said [VIDEO] Easterly.

Easterly's definition of espionage includes intellectual property theft and "The greatest transfer of intellectual wealth in history."

Given the "Formidable nature of the threat from Chinese state actors" Easterly said she believes it will be very difficult for the US to prevent disruptions to infrastructure and therefore advocates resilience - in which her faith has been shaken recently.

Beyond cyber security, Easterly sees hope in collaboration with China for the sake of preventing an AI-related apocalypse through regulation.

"If we can have conversations with our adversaries about nuclear weapons, I think we probably should think about having these conversations with our adversaries on AI, which after all in my view will be the most powerful weapons of this century," Easterly said.

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