A Chinese cyber espionage operation is hitting U.S. infrastructure, West warns

A Chinese state-sponsored cyber threat actor is performing discrete espionage operations within critical U.S. infrastructure and may target other nations, Western cybersecurity agencies and Microsoft warned Wednesday.

Those operations may be aimed at developing ways to disrupt critical communications between the U.S. and Asia “during future crises,” Microsoft said — a warning that could refer to a potential attack on Taiwan by China, which has indicated it may use military force…