Washington | The United States and Britain imposed sanctions on China’s elite hacking units on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), accusing China’s top spy agency of a years-long effort to place malware in America’s electrical grids, defence systems and other critical infrastructure, and of stealing the voting rolls for 40 million British citizens.
Taken together, the actions on both sides of the Atlantic underscored the escalation of cyber conflict between the Western allies and China, in vastly different spheres.
