Pentagon leaders expect Cybercom 2.0 to help thwart Chinese actors ‘living off the land’

Senior officials at the Defense Department say the Pentagon’s new cyber force generation model will help the military boot out Chinese threats from America’s critical infrastructure networks.

A digital tactic known as “living off the land” has been a concern for U.S. officials in recent years as actors linked to China, such as Volt Typhoon, have infiltrated networks in the United States.

“The Chinese have executed a deliberate campaign in order to compromise U.S. networks and then use native commands and native features inside those networks to move around to look like legitimate traffic. That makes it difficult for us to define those,” Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman, acting commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, told lawmakers during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity hearing.

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