Once considered mainly an economic thief in cyberspace, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now seen by the U.S. military as its top cyberthreat and “pacing adversary,” capable of not only espionage, but also potential sabotage of lifeline systems.
More than a dozen cybersecurity annual reviews and 2025 trend reports sound the alarm on the regime’s increasingly sophisticated cybercapabilities, with one even crowning 2024 as the “inflection point” in Chinese cyberespionage.
The recent large-scale hacks into U.S. critical infrastructure and telecommunications networks that went undetected for months, if not years, seemed a far cry from the unsubtle, brute-force cyberactivity of earlier years and brought new attention to the issue….
As CCP Cybersabotage Escalates, US Changes Posture
