China’s cyberattacks, electronic espionage subverting U.S. and its allies, report says

China’s aggressive and technically advanced cyberattacks, electronic espionage and information operations are strategic weapons targeting the United States, according to a major study by an intelligence contractor made public Monday.

The United States must urgently confront these operations through modernizing cyber defenses and countering Beijing’s targeting of infrastructure and use of deception and diplomacy in information and influence activities, the report by Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., warns.

Increasingly successful information operations and global cyber activities are growing in both sophistication and capability through the use of artificial intelligence, a key tool now being used by both Chinese intelligence services and the Chinese Communist Party’s military, the People’s Liberation Army, the report states.

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