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A view of the entrance of the US Andersen Air Force base on the island of Guam, a US Pacific territory.

REUTERS/Erik De Castro

​​Did China try to hack Guam?

Microsoft and the US National Security Agency on Wednesday revealed that state-sponsored Chinese hackers installed surveillance malware in critical systems on the island of Guam. Strictly speaking, this is not a cyberattack, but the malware — loaded using legit apps that people carry on their devices, making it harder to detect — can be used to damage infrastructure.

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