The warning came on the heels of a Washington briefing which said Chinese state-linked hackers had stolen 60,000 emails from 10 State Department accounts

China's embassy in London said the accusation was "disinformation" and called the US government "the world's biggest hacking empire and global cyber thief"

India accounted for almost half of the world's internet shutdowns last year, while the Russian military also cut online services in Ukraine, internet watchdog group Access Now said

Current cyber security rules, government policies and regulations "are simply not at the level that we need them to be," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said

Representative Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House judiciary committee, said that "three hostile foreign actors" had attacked the courts' document filing system

The rules will govern how companies and other entities handle large quantities of personal user information, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said

"The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology — whatever it is that makes your industry tick—and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market," says the FBI.

The call by Democratic senator Mark Warner and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio followed a Buzzfeed report saying TikTok staff in China could access private data of US users

``To kick them out, we must understand the tradecraft and detect them beyond just initial access,'' tweeted a National Security Agency official.

Western financial firms have been warned that China's new cybersecurity rules could pose 'significant systemic risks' to their operations

Three US agencies said Pyongyang dispatches thousands of information technology workers worldwide, taking advantage of existing demands for specific skills

The pillars of the new law include protecting sensitive technology, strengthening supply chains for semiconductors and encouraging new tech such as artificial intelligence