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Shocking! This is the first that I'd ever heard of Chinese govt backed cyberwarfare. And this is so unlike them.

The only thing about this that should be surprising is that there are so many systems that are out there with active vulnerabilities, but it's not actually surprising at all. Some companies are super diligent about cybersecurity, but there are plenty that are not. And "government systems" is a wide net that includes all sorts of systems that have low budgets and are barely or poorly maintained.