The Jerusalem Post reports: “China is trying to use cyber weapons to preposition the US and the West for ‘societal havoc and chaos in civilian infrastructure’ in the event of a conflict, Nick Andersen, Executive Assistant Director for the Cybersecurity Division (CSD) of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said on Tuesday.

Speaking at the Cyber Week conference at Tel Aviv University, Andersen stated that in terms of hacking threats, ‘the most significant and comprehensive threat in the long term is absolutely from the People’s Republic of China.’

They have a ‘long-term cyber campaign, not just to gather intelligence, but to shape the battle space – infrastructure…using persistent reconnaissance and low-key intrusions,’ said the American CISA cyber official.

He accused China of ‘embedding in water, the energy grid, the cloud, telecommunications, and identity systems’ in order to ‘weaken national resolve during a time of crisis.’…”