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Committee warned China is prepositioning in U.S. networks; witnesses urge restoring cyber workforce and stronger private‑sector defenses
Summary
At a House Homeland Security hearing, witnesses warned that PRC cyber actors maintain persistent access to U.S. networks and may be prepositioning capabilities to disrupt critical infrastructure, and they urged scaling up federal cyber staffing.
Witnesses at the House Homeland Security hearing described sustained cyber operations by Chinese actors that they said go beyond theft to “preposition” capabilities inside U.S. infrastructure that could be used in crises.
Dr. Rush Doshi, identified to the committee as director of the China Strategies Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations, said PRC cyber actors “compromised sensitive U.S. networks” with multiple objectives: collecting personal data, stealing intellectual property and “prepositioning for destructive cyber attacks on American power, gas, water, telecom, and transportation infrastructure.” William Evanina, former director of the National…
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