CCP Military Hackers Preparing to Shut Down American Infrastructure | CLIP | Live With Josh

[Music] hey welcome to Crossroads in today's episode we'll be talking about Chinese military hackers right now allegedly preparing to shut down or practicing to shut down the American infrastructure including the electric grid also the world economic forum is warning of cyber attacks like this crippling the Us and other countries and there's also talk now of the potential out of an artificial intelligence-powered computer virus and what this would mean to the world system when so much of it is now connected to the internet some very serious stuff let's talk about it now first of all what's happening right now Chinese military hackers are accused of infiltrating the systems that basically keep America running this includes the electric grid its water utilities its gas and oil systems transportation a lot of other systems now the CCP is allegedly doing this in preparations for a potential Cyber attack against the United States in the case of a war in the Pacific at least that's how it's Being Framed Washington Post says this it says the Chinese military is ramping up its ability to disrupt key American infrastructure including Power and Water Utilities as well as communication and transportation systems according to us officials and industries security officials it says these hackers affiliating affiliated with China's people's Liberation Army the CCP military have burrowed into the computer systems about of about two dozen CL critical entities over the last year according to these individuals and notes the intrusions are part of a broader effort to develop ways to sew panic and Chaos or snar Logistics in the event of a us China conflict in the Pacific among the victims it says are a water utility in Hawaii a major West Coast port and at least one oil and gas pipeline according to people familiar with it now they said that they've also attempted to break into the uh one of the Texas power grids which operates independently from electrical systems in the rest of the country and several entities outside the United States including Electric utilities also have been victimized by these hackers according to these individuals and of course all of this is Raising concerns of well if you have Chinese military hackers probing right now the electric grid of and not just the United States but of many countries if you have them getting into the water systems into the gas systems well what are they doing and one of the possibilities is is that they're first establishing access to get into the systems and they could potentially maintain that access there's also the potential they're planting things that are quiet things that are not making noise right now but could be activated at a later time now I'll go deeper into you know my thoughts on exactly what's happening with this including I'll show you in fact some of the Chinese military's plans noting it attacks exactly like this we'll go into that soon but first I want to talk about some of the other debates online around this because a lot of people are pointing to the world economic Forum interestingly warning of an attack that sounds almost exactly like this I should clarify there has not yet been an attack of this sort what is happening right now is that Chinese military hackers have been discovered apparently planning or creating the capabilities for an attack like this they're setting it up basically now when it comes to the world economic Forum they have discussed cyber attacks in the same way as covid-19 in the same way as a Global pandemic they're saying that in the same way this the world economic Forum this is they've been saying this for you know four years is and especially over the last two years they've had a lot of different reports and claims about the threat of an attack of this sort they're raising concerns over the idea of a cyber pandemic the idea that just in the way that a virus spreads in among humans and infects us and so on and so forth that a bug or a virus could also spread within the electric infrastructure within computers within International systems that maintain the networks and computers that make societies run electric grid water supply Traffic Systems maybe banking who knows what else they're discussing it again in the same way as a pandemic and in light of discussing it as a pandemic they're suggesting ways of challenge or trying to take it on as you would in preparation for a pandemic and the world economic forum is suggesting the only way to stop or a Cyber attack of this sort that could potentially spread from device to device much like a virus spreading human to human is to be able to disconnect these electric devices from one another and from the internet what does that mean it means that they're suggesting there needs to be some kind of system that could shut down maybe individual devices that could maybe monitor individual devices that would have the capabilities of stopping a Cyber attack like this from being able to spread and that would have some pretty serious implications I'll go into that but first let me show you a video from the world economic Forum itself this is from 2 years ago watch this you see the only way to stop the exponential propagation of a co-like cyber threat is to fully disconnect the millions of the vulnerable devices from one another and from the internet all of this in a matter of days a single day without the internet would cost our economies more than 50 billion us and that's before considering the economic and societal damages should these devices be linked to essential services such as transport or Healthcare as the digital realm increasingly merges with our physical world the Ripple effects of cyber attacks on our safety just keep on expanding at a faster Pace than what we're preparing for covid-19 was known as an anticipated risk so is the digital equivalent let's be better prepared for that one the time is now now that video was from two years ago and some of you may have seen another video that was going viral it was CLA Schwab the head of the world economic forum and he was at the Cyber polygon event in 2020 he was warning of a digital pandemic and people are now pointing to this given the news going around with hey this sounds sounds a whole lot like whatl Schwab warned about you know a few years back and people are suggesting well is this some weird plan is there some weird thing going on I'll give my thoughts on it but let me show you first what he said watch this we all know but still pay insufficient attention to the frightening scenario of a comprehensive Cyber attack which would bring to a complete halt to the power supply Transportation Hospital services our society as a whole the K9 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison