Security News > 2024 > July > Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China

China has asserted that the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact made up by the US intelligence community.

The nation's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, and infosec vendor 360 Digital Security Group last week published a report [PDF] on Vault Typhoon titled ": A secret Disinformation Campaign targeting US Congress and Taxpayers conducted by US Government agencies.

Infosec providers were manipulated - presumably so they found fake evidence of Volt Typhoon's activities and then published material about it.

The object of the campaign was to secure re-authorization of the US's controversial Section 702 warrantless surveillance regime.

Such invasions of privacy are obviously offensive to China, where all citizens' communications are always subject to warrantless surveillance.

The document concludes with a warning to peaceful nations of the world that Section 702's existence, and extension, is evidence that the US is an aggressive global hegemon and an "Empire of Hacking" intent on keeping China down.

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