China-backed cyber attack among most significant in US history

An October cyber attack perpetrated by the Chinese state-backed Salt Typhoon threat group is one of the largest in history. Targeting U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, the attack was intended to exfiltrate data for espionage. John Cohen, Executive Director of the Program for Countering Hybrid Threats at CIS, told The Epoch Times that threat actors will use that information and communications systems to steal sensitive information for use in future malign information operations, to embarrass or undermine the credibility of targets in the U.S.