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Chinese cyber threat "unparalleled," FBI Director says The Chinese cyber threat is " unparalleled " by any other national security challenge seen by the U.S. government, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. China, seemingly gearing up to invade Taiwan within years or even months, poses the most significant threat to the United States more broadly, Wray said during Thursday testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee. "They've got a bigger hacking program than every other major nation," Wray said. "There's no country that presents a more significant threat to our innovation, our ideas, our economic security, our national security than Chinese government. And that's why we've grown the number of investigations into threat s from China about 1300%," he added. FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a hearing before the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropria...

U.S. government networks were hit by a cyberattack affecting several agencies, but the attack does not pose a major risk to national security, an official said Thursday U.S. government networks were hit by a cyberattack affecting several federal agencies, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly confirmed on Thursday. CISA, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, previously identified a gap in software security believed to have been exploited in attack. An electronic file transfer application, MOVEit Transfer, is thought to be the target of the broader cyber intrusion, one official said. A spokesperson for Mandiant, the cyber intelligence arm of Google Cloud, said government data was stolen in the attack. CISA officials declined to say how many federal agencies were impacted and did not say who was behind the attack. Easterly downplayed the severity of the attack in a call to reporters, saying the intrusion was not as damaging as the SolarWinds hack...