• “As much as we’re looking for talks and thaws and guardrails, their offensive strategy of exploiting capabilities, in the meantime, [is] prepping the battlefield,” Atlas Organization founder Jonathan D.T. Ward said on “Mornings with Maria” Thursday. “That should tell us everything.”
• Microsoft said in a Wednesday post that the company has “uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States.”
• “The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon,” Microsoft said. Volt Typhoon is reportedly a Chinese state-sponsored actor that focuses on “espionage and information gathering.”

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