{"id":1989575,"date":"2023-08-03T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-open-probe-into-suspected-chinese-cyber-espionage-targeting-federal-agencies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T11:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:32:34","slug":"house-republicans-open-probe-into-suspected-chinese-cyber-espionage-targeting-federal-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-open-probe-into-suspected-chinese-cyber-espionage-targeting-federal-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans launch investigation into alleged Chinese cyber espionage on US federal agencies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-open-probe-into-suspected-chinese-cyber-espionage-targeting-federal-agencies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1989575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Republicans Launch Probe into \u2063Chinese Cyber-Espionage Campaigns<\/h2>\n<p>House Republicans have \u2062initiated an investigation into\u2062 suspected Chinese cyber-espionage campaigns targeting the State Department and \u200bthe Commerce Department. This comes after \u200chackers gained unauthorized access to federal \u200cgovernment communications, raising concerns\u200d about national security.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigation Led by House \u200bOversight and Accountability Chair<\/h3>\n<p>The investigation is being led by House Oversight and Accountability \u200bChair James Comer (R-KY), along with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Rep. \u2064Glenn Growthman (R-WI). In two\u200c letters sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and \u200dCommerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the lawmakers requested further information regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cyberattack-on-australian-telco-optus-affects-1-2-million-customers\/\" title=\"Cyberattack on Australian telco Optus affects 1.2 million customers\">cyber breaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d lawmakers want a briefing on\u2062 the compromise by August \u200c9, as they\u2064 believe that the \u2063recent\u2064 discovery of the hacking indicates that China&#8217;s cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. They are \u2063concerned that Chinese hackers may have the ability to \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-open-probe-into-suspected-chinese-cyber-espionage-targeting-federal-agencies\/\" title=\"House Republicans launch investigation into alleged Chinese cyber espionage on US federal agencies.\">access high-level computer networks<\/a> and remain undetected for extended periods.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers also requested a briefing \u200cfrom \u2063Raimondo in a\u200d nearly identical letter to the one sent to Blinken.<\/p>\n<h3>Growing Concerns Over\u2063 Chinese Cyber Threats<\/h3>\n<p>News of the \u200bhacking, which federal officials first discovered in June, was made public in July. The Commerce Department took immediate action to respond\u200d to the compromise of \u2062Microsoft&#8217;s Office \u200d365 system, and they continue to monitor their systems for any \u2063further activity.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200c March, the White House released a framework emphasizing \u200bthe need for cybersecurity. It highlighted China, \u2064along with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, as countries actively working to enhance\u2064 their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-intel-warns-china-is-advancing-military-power-sharing-propaganda\/\" title=\"U.S. Intel warns China is advancing military power, sharing propaganda\">cyber capabilities<\/a>.\u2063 The framework described China as the most significant and persistent threat, with the \u2063intent and power to\u2064 reshape the \u2062international order.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s pursuit of &#8220;digital authoritarianism&#8221; to\u200d shape the global Internet in its image is a growing concern.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690455510071000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0zc8zwWGoXeRzcNJLiJVWI\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are investigating alleged Chinese cyber-espionage on the State and Commerce Departments. Hackers breached federal government communications, prompting the probe. Led by James Comer, Nancy Mace, and Glenn Growthman, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee initiated the investigation with two letters sent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1989576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}