Cyber Quadriad
U.S. Formally Accuses China of Hacking Microsoft
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/us/politics/microsoft-hacking-china-biden.html
US leadership would be more effective if it admitted and wound down its own global hacking infrastructure composed of gov/com/ngo/hackers/leakers/fronts/coverts/spies/unknowns.
Little if any of the tools used by attackers were not, are not, produced by US technology enterprises amply funded by the USG.
This is hardly news, US cyber attack prowess has been bragged about since it was invented, demonstrated by offenses, crowed about its defenses, advertized in job openings, sponsored by university grants, celebrated with awards and prizes, deliberately leaked by Snowden-like operations, hooted and tooted by WikiLeaks-like dispensaries, marketed and gifted to other countries like burgers and fries, underwritten by sneaky financial deals.
Come on, now, cries of assault by other nations sounds like an advertizing campaign, coupled with extortion of the legislature for increased boondoggle for data threats to compensate for downtrending of hardware and mass slaughter weaponry.
Forget Cyber Pearl Harbor mass marketing, that was an over the bow shot, now Cyber Nuclear Quadriad Total Environmental is being unleashed to ratchet up the classified data armaments industry guarded by NDAs and secrecy agreements -- and customary flood of headlines supported on deep foundation of contracts, subsidies, fellowships, special briefings to cleared natsec beaters along with a steady output of insiders sent outside to oil the chutes of "unauthorized" disclosures.