In a meeting with a Biden administration delegate in December, a top Chinese leader acknowledged that the country was behind cyberattacks on the United States.
The Wall Street Journal published the report, which shocked the members of the U.S. delegation at the secret meeting held in Geneva after they had heard the Chinese repeatedly deny their involvement.
The Journal’s report is based upon unnamed sources who were present at the meeting. The Chinese warned the U.S. to stop supporting Taiwan.
Dakota Cary is a China expert at SentinelOne. She told the Journal, “A Chinese official will likely acknowledge the intrusions only if they are instructed by the top level of Xi [President Xi Jinping]’s government.”
The U.S. Government has been closely monitoring Chinese cyber intrusions for many years. In March 2024, the Justice Department of Biden’s administration charged seven Chinese citizens with involvement in a scheme that targeted Chinese critics and politicians in America.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned an expert Chinese computer hacker last month for hacking into critical U.S. Infrastructure networks. The Department posted: “Malicious Cyber Actors, especially those operating in China continue to be one the greatest and most persistent threats to U.S. National Security.”