China Is Already Targeting Joe Biden And His Team, A Top Us Intelligence Official Warned, Calling It An Attack 'on Steroids'

Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center Bill Evanina in Washington, DC, in 2018. Reuters China has started targeting President-elect Joe Biden and his team, a top US intelligence official warned at an Aspen Institute summit Wednesday. Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said his agency had expected the Chinese to "revector their influence campaigns to the new administration." Evanina did not give any specifics but said the influence campaign was "on steroids." Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. China has already started targeting President-elect Joe Biden and his team, a top US intelligence official warned Wednesday.Speaking on a panel at the Aspen Institute's virtual Cyber Summit, Bill Evanina, director of the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said his agency had expected the attack, and that China is conducting its operation "on steroids.""We've also seen an uptick, which was planned and we predicted, that China would now revector their influence campaigns to the new administration," he said."And when I say that — that malign foreign influence, that diplomatic influence plus-or-on steroids — we're starting to see that play across the country to not only the folks starting in the new administration, but those who are around those folks," he told the panel moderator, Wall Street Journal reporter Aruna Viswanatha.Evanina did not give any specifics, but said his team would work with the Biden camp to help them identify attacks. Clockwise from top left: Evanina, Wall Street Journal reporter Aruna Viswanatha, and DOJ national-security official John Demers at the Aspen Cyber Summit on December 2, 2020. YouTube/Aspen Institute "So that's one area we're going to be very keen on making sure the new administration understands that influence, what it looks like, what it tastes like, what it feels like when you see it," he said.Business Insider has contacted the Biden campaign for comment.Read more: Biden wants to move beyond the Trump era.