China Is Biggest Threat to US Cybersecurity: Report

The Chinese regime is likely to use “destructive” cyberattacks during a conflict, the Pentagon warns.

A member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at their office in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong Province, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

China’s communist regime poses the biggest threat to the United States in the cybersecurity arena, according to a newly published summary of a classified report released by the Department of Defense (DOD) on Sept. 12.

The “2023 DOD Cyber Strategy” report (pdf) serves as the baseline document for how the Pentagon is operationalizing the priorities of the “2022 National Security Strategy,” the “2022 National Defense Strategy,” and the “2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy,” officials said.