FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaks with reporters during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Dec. 6, 2023, in Washington, as Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Criminal Division, left, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, look on. Mark Schiefelbein/AP
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Director Wray, along with U.S. Cyber Command Commander General Paul Nakasone, Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly and Harry Coker, the director of the National Cyber Director office, will be testifying in front of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist party.
“There has been far too little public focus on the fact that PRC hackers are targeting our critical infrastructure — our water treatment plants, our electrical grid, our oil and natural gas pipelines, our transportation systems. And the risk that poses to every American requires our attention — now,” Wray says in selected testimony released by the FBI ahead of the hearing.
He says they are “attacking our economic security, engaging in wholesale theft of our innovation, and our personal and corporate data.”
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The Justice Department has made several cases against Chinese hackers in the past with the most recent case in 2021.
Meanwhile, the FBI director will say that China deserves Americans’ attention now.
“They target our freedoms, reaching inside our borders, across America, to silence, coerce, and threaten our citizens and residents,” he says.
* Original Article:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chinas-hackers-preparing-wreak-havoc-cause-real-world/story?id=106815323
