In the days before the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Chinese hackers sent out a flurry of malicious emails to prominent White House correspondents and other journalists at major U.S. news outlets in an apparent intelligence collection effort, U.S. cybersecurity firm Proofpoint said Thursday.
As Chinese hackers scrambled to ascertain whether there would be a peaceful transfer of power in the U.S., they tried to break into the email accounts of high-profile U.S. journalists, who can be softer targets for hackers than officials on US government networks.
