U.S. Intelligence Agency Issues Warning About Chinese Hackers

The National Security Agency (NSA) recently issued a warning about 25 patchable bugs that are being leveraged by Chinese hackers to infiltrate American networks. The vulnerabilities apparently affect products that are mostly used for external web services or remote access. Chinese hacking threat ࢀœNSA is aware that National Security Systems, Defense Industrial Base, and Department of Defense networks are consistently scanned, targeted, and exploited by Chinese state-sponsored cyber actorsࢀ¦ NSA recommends that critical system owners consider these actions a priority, in order to mitigate the loss of sensitive information that could impact U.S. policies, strategies, plans, and competitive advantage,ࢀ the…