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Chinese officials claimed behind closed doors PRC played role in US cyberattacks: Report
Chinese officials acknowledged behind closed doors at a December meeting that their government was responsible for a series of cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to a Wall Street Journal report based on information from people familiar with the matter.
The news comes as the two countries continue to spar over tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and reciprocated and upped by President Xi Jinping.
In an exclusive, the Wall Street Journal reported that those who spoke on condition of anonymity claimed Chinese officials connected the cyberattacks on U.S. ports, airports, utilities and other important targets to America’s support for Taiwan.
The report noted that Biden administration officials learned of the discovery first hand during a summit in Geneva, as their Chinese counterparts blamed the campaign, referred to as Volt Typhoon, on a criminal organization.
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Chinese officials also accused the U.S. of pointing blame at China based on their imagination.
A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital the State Department has made clear to Beijing that the U.S. will continue to take actions in response to Chinese malicious cyber activity targeting the U.S.
«Chinese cyber threats are some of the gravest and most persistent threats to U.S. national security,» the spokesperson said. «The United States will continue to use all the tools at its disposal to safeguard U.S. critical infrastructure from irresponsible and reckless cyberattacks from Beijing. President Trump is committed to protecting the American people and U.S. critical infrastructure from these threats.»
The Chinese Embassy told FOX Business News that China «firmly opposes» the smear attacks against it without any factual basis.
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President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping
«Cyberspace is characterized by strong virtuality, difficulty in tracing origins, and diverse actors, making the tracing of cyberattacks a complex technical issue,» Embassy spokesperson Mr. Liu Pengyu said. «We hope that relevant parties will adopt a professional and responsible attitude when characterizing cyber incidents, basing their conclusions on sufficient evidence rather than unfounded speculation and accusations.
«The US needs to stop using cybersecurity to smear and slander China, and stop spreading all kinds of disinformation about the so-called Chinese hacking threats,» he added.
The Biden administration warned state leaders in March 2024 that cyberattacks by hackers linked to Iran and China could take down water systems across the U.S. if cybersecurity measures were not taken out of precaution.
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WASHINGTON, DC May 13, 2024: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during the Daily Briefing in The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Monday May 13, 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Then Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael S. Regan and Jake Sullivan, the assistant to Biden for national security affairs, said in an email to state governors that cyberattacks were targeting water and wastewater systems throughout the U.S.
In the letter, the two Biden administration officials said the attacks could disrupt clean and safe drinking water and impose significant costs on affected communities.
While one attack was linked to Iran, the other threat came from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored hacker group, Volt Typhoon, which compromised information technology of critical infrastructure systems, including drinking water facilities in the U.S. and its territories.
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Drinking water poured into glass (UBC)
As U.S. officials issued warnings about Volt Typhoon’s effort, they also accused the PRC of attempting to get into U.S. computer networks in an effort to unleash cyberattacks during any unforeseen conflicts in the future.
The FBI said in December that hackers in Beijing infiltrated networks of «multiple» telecommunication companies, gaining access to customer call records and private communications of «a limited number of individuals.» But the targets, the FBI noted in December, were Americans involved in government and politics.
A federal investigation uncovered a massive cyber-espionage campaign by the Chinese government, targeting U.S. telecommunications networks to steal Americans’ information. A top White House official confirmed in December that at least eight U.S. telecom companies had been affected by the hacking spree.
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The campaign was believed to have started a year or two ago, the Associated Press reported.
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«Bienvenidos al infierno, de aquí nadie sale»: testimonios aterradores de los venezolanos deportados por EE.UU. y presos en El Salvador
Carlos Uzcátegui, uno de los venezolanos enviados desde EE.UU. a El Salvador, al reencontrarse con su familia en Lobatera, Venezuela. Foto: AP Deportados por los tatuajes
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For years, US-approved visas meant for abused children went to adults, criminals and gang members, DHS finds
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FIRST ON FOX: An immigration program meant to provide permanent legal status to undocumented migrant children who experience abuse or neglect was, under the Biden administration, offered mostly to illegal immigrants older than age 18, many of whom had criminal records, according to a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report obtained by Fox News Digital.
A Trump administration review of the special immigrant juvenile petition program found that between fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2024, 198,414 special immigrant juvenile petitions were approved. And in fiscal year 2024, 52% of special immigrant juvenile petitioners were over the age of 18 through a loophole that allowed classification to be offered up to age 21.
Of those petitioners, 60% were male. Massachusetts, New York, Maryland and California are hot spots, states where courts routinely approve special immigrant juvenile predicate orders for legal adults, often based solely on affidavits.
Affidavits alone, often written by the petitioner or a petitioner’s lawyer, are used to claim abandonment or neglect. Judges may sign off without hearings.
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A Trump administration review of the special immigrant juvenile petition program found that between fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2024, 198,414 special immigrant juvenile visas were approved. (Benjamin Lowy for Fox News Digital )
Misuse of the program didn’t just occur under Biden. Since 2013, more than 600 MS-13 gang members applied for the special immigrant juvenile visa, according to the DHS report, and more than 500 of them were approved.
The report also identified 853 known or suspected gang members who filed special immigrant juvenile petitions, most of whom were approved.
At least 120 of those petitioning for special immigrant juvenile visas since 2013 have been arrested for murder, and more than 200 of those who had their visas approved were convicted of sex offenses and required to register on the National Sex Offender Registry.
Many petitioners filed when they were older than age 18 and qualified because they were raised with one natural parent and claimed the other parent was not involved in their life, «abandonment,» or did not financially support them, «neglect,» according to the report.
More than 100 known or suspected members of the 18th Street gang, a criminal group with origins in California and Mexico, had special immigrant juvenile petitions approved since 2013, and dozens of others suspected of involvement in the Tren de Aragua, Sureño and Norteño gangs had approved special immigrant juvenile visas, according to the report.
The Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras accounted for approximately 73.6% of all filings within the special immigrant juvenile program from 2014 to 2024.
In 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received a petition from a 19-year-old suspected of plotting an Islamic State terror attack in the U.S. after he requested another adult be appointed his legal guardian.
But the new report found that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services decided against interviewing or requiring biometrics for those under the age of 18. Even for those 18 and older, only 36% were asked to submit biometrics.
An Ecuadorian migrant child walks through the river Nov. 20, 2022, in Darién Gap, Colombia. (Jan Sochor/Getty Images)
Since fiscal year 2013, nearly 20,000 special immigrant juvenile petitioners submitted conflicting birth dates, with 18,407 appearing over the age of 21 based on prior records — the program age cutoff.
Fraud may be widespread in countries with weak documentation systems, like Bangladesh, Somalia and Yemen, where birth certificates are easily falsified, the report said.
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«Criminal aliens are infiltrating the U.S. through a program meant to protect abused, neglected or abandoned alien children,» said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser. «This report exposes how the open border lobby and activist judges are exploiting loopholes in the name of aiding helpless children.»
More than 600 MS-13 gang members applied for the SIJ visa, according to the DHS report, and over 500 of them were approved. (John Alle/Santa Monica Coalition)
In June, the Citizenship and Immigration Services office stopped offering deferred immigration enforcement for special immigrant juveniles. The office said it is looking at new ways to «ensure the SIJ classification remains available for the juveniles it was intended to protect.»
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Congress first established the program in 1990 to allow young unlawful immigrants that a court has determined cannot reunify with parents due to abuse or neglect to apply for special immigrant juvenile classification, lawful permanent resident status and have an eventual path to U.S. citizenship. But, by law, there are no criminal bars or good moral character requirements for special immigrant juvenile petition approval.
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Russia and Ukraine took aim at corresponding Black Sea resort cities early Thursday morning, just hours after ceasefire talks in Turkey once again failed to deliver results.
The major Russian resort city of Sochi was rocked by a Ukrainian drone strike that began around 1 a.m. and lasted until 3 a.m., where one person was reportedly killed and another injured, according to Ukrainian media outlet the Kyiv Independent, though the Ukrainian military has not commented on the incident.
An oil depot in the Krasnodar Krai region where Sochi is located was also struck, though the extent of the damage remains unclear.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 23, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kyiv has routinely levied strikes at Russian territory as Moscow continues to pummel not only the eastern frontlines of Ukraine, but civilian populations across the country.
What Ukraine may have been targeting in Sochi remains unclear, though the city is home to some of Russia’s most favored vacation locations as well as the infamous Soviet-era palace used by the Kremlin leaders as a retreat, and allegedly housed Russian President Vladimir Putin during the COVID pandemic – though it was reportedly demolished in 2024 over Ukrainian strike concerns.
Russia also hit the Ukrainian port city of Odessa – which has been repeatedly targeted in the three-year-long war – in early morning strikes in what Ukraine’s State Emergency Service described as «another hellish night» as a nine-story residential building was struck.
«The residents from the 5th to the 8th floors lost their homes,» the emergency management body said in a statement posted to Telegram. «There is a risk of structural collapse.»
Emergency rescue teams evacuated 38 people, including five who were trapped in their apartments.
At least four people were injured in the overnight strikes, according to Reuters, and fires were reported to have raged in other parts of the city as well.
Russia launched a terrifying assault on the Ukrainian Black Sea city Odessa, hitting a nine-floor residential building and destroying the iconic Privoz Market, which has existed since 1827, on July 24, 2025. (East2West via Ukraine Ministry of Defense)
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«Overnight, russian forces launched a massive attack on Odesa. As a result of an attack, one of the city’s most iconic landmarks, the Pryvoz market, caught fire,» Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said in a post on X. «Also, multiple civilian targets were damaged, including the residential high-rise, a two-story building, a gas station, and even a UNESCO-protected architectural monument in the city center.
«Once again, Russians target civilian cities – there is zero military gain from these strikes,» the ministry added. «Ukraine needs more air defense systems to protect our people from such terror.»
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also said on Thursday that «dozens» of civilians in Kharkiv, including children, were injured in an overnight attack by Russian glide bombs.
«These are utterly senseless strikes with no military purpose whatsoever,» Zelenskyy said. «And we see that this is Russia’s only intention – to continue aggression and killings.
«That is precisely why we need support in defense – strong air defenses, expanded weapons production. All of this will help save lives,» he added.
While Ukraine’s Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal met with NATO officials this week to discuss ramping up defensive aid and counter capabilities, attempted ceasefire talks in Istanbul between delegations from Moscow and Kyiv again failed to achieve any results, though future POW swaps were again discussed.
Zelenskyy took to X to voice his frustration at the continued Russian attacks despite Ukrainian efforts to secure a ceasefire, and said, «Yesterday, at the meeting in Istanbul, the proposal for an immediate and full ceasefire was reiterated to the Russian side.»
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Vladimir Medinskiy, advisor to President Vladimir Putin, speaks to the press at the Ciragan Palace following the third round of peace talks hosted by Turkey in Istanbul on July 23, 2025. (Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«In response, Russian drones struck residential buildings and the Pryvoz market in Odesa, apartment blocks in Cherkasy, energy infrastructure in the Kharkiv region, a university gym in Zaporizhzhia. Donetsk, Sumy, and Mykolaiv regions were all under strikes as well,» he added. «In total, there were 103 attack drones, mostly ‘Shaheds’, and four missiles.»
President Donald Trump last week gave Putin 50 days to enter into a ceasefire or face stiff sanctions, though some have expressed concern that the threat of sanctions will not be enough to deter his war ambitions.
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