Leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike's annual global threat report has revealed that China-linked hackers have been targeting 39 industries on nearly every continent, using increasingly sophisticated techniques to gather information. U.S. concerns about the potential for Chinese parent company ByteDance to give the Chinese Communist Party access to user data through the popular app TikTok are "absolutely valid," according to CrowdStrike's Chief Security Officer Shawn Henry. The Trump administration has proposed banning TikTok and other Chinese-owned apps, and the U.S. Senate has passed a bill to require companies to disclose any ties to the Chinese government.
