Leaked technical documents show China rehearsing cyberattacks on neighbors’ critical infrastructure

The Record: The internal files describe the training platform as part of a large integrated system called “Expedition Cloud” designed to allow attackers to practice hacking replicas of “the real network environments” of China’s “main operational opponents in the South China Sea and Indochina directions.”

The cache, which was first reported by specialist blog NetAskari, specifies recreating target computer networks used in the power, energy transmission and transportation sectors as well as in smart home infrastructure. It stresses evaluating the work of “reconnaissance groups” and “attack groups” in operations against these networks, with no specified role for defenders…