"Has World War III Already Begun?" That was the
headline for an article by the chief foreign-affairs
correspondent for the Wall Street Journal last month, which
reported how Russia is "getting even more effective at using
new tools, like cyberattacks and ransomware, to disrupt our
societies."
China is too. A year ago, the FBI Director warned that China was
ramping up an extensive hacking operation designed to take
down the United States' power grid, oil pipelines and water
systems. Then in April 2024, the director reaffirmed this while speaking at the
Modern Conflicts and Emerging Threats summit in
Nashville:
"The PRC [People's Republic of China] has made it clear
that it considers every sector that makes our society run as fair
game in its bid to dominate on the world stage, and that its plan
is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to
induce panic and break America's will to resist."
