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This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast.
Hey listeners, Ting here—welcome back to your favorite tech defense briefing on China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense for October 12, 2025. Let’s skip the pleasantries because things have been sizzling in the last 24 hours. If you blinked, you missed something hacked.
Top of the threat list: the **Beamglea Campaign**, which ramped up just yesterday. Chinese cybercriminals abused 175 compromised npm packages and the unpkg CDN for a large-scale phishing spree. These attacks are leveraging cloud-based infrastructure that US startups and Fortune 500 companies trust for deploying web apps. The technique: embed phishing malware in innocent-looking packages that developers download, turning legitimate code into a Trojan horse. This one’s spreading fast, so dev teams, audit every dependency now and check for indicators of compromise—CISA's emergency bulletin spells it out, plus recommends kill-switches and immediate network segmentation for any suspected system.
Over in the world of **malware**, US security pros are racing to counter the fresh variant of Stealit malware, which piggybacks off game and VPN installers. This stealthy beast abuses Node.js's single executable feature, which means it can sneak onto endpoints almost as easily as adding a browser extension. Stealit’s recent wave managed to siphon login credentials from three major US tech firms—one in fintech, one in communications, and another we can’t name (yet). Sophos and Mandiant are ringing the alarm, advising a full sweep for malicious installers and a lockdown on third-party software—even your games aren’t safe.
The **DDoS botnet Aisuru** just set new records striking US ISPs—AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast took the brunt. Nearly 30 trillion bits per second slammed into US infrastructure, traced to compromised IoT devices like smart cameras and routers. This is no random flood; experts say Chinese operators likely orchestrated the botnet’s surge to test domestic resilience. If you run an ISP or host consumer devices, patch everything and isolate infected segments. CISA’s guidance pushes for disabling unused ports and rolling out network-level anomaly detection, pronto.
CISA’s also urging hospitals and biotech to tighten ship after fresh disclosure of Chinese-made medical monitors carrying a backdoor. The FDA and American Hospital Association back this up. At least one common monitor used in US clinics can download unauthorized code remotely—meaning someone in Shenzhen could tweak your ECG with a few keystrokes. Hospitals: apply the recommended firmware patch and isolate these devices to their own VLAN with zero internet access. Biotech firms, heads up: the Senate just advanced the Biosecure Act, aiming to cut federal contracts with Chinese genetic tech suppliers. Anyone in genomics or medical research, reevaluate partnerships immediately.
And last but not least, the **velociraptor tool**—meant for digital forensics—was hijacked by a China-linked crew dubbed Storm-2603. They deployed ransomware via the same DFIR tool US security teams use for incident response. Irony alert: defenders get hacked with their own shield. The immediate fix is restricting tool access and enforcing stricter privilege boundaries on forensics software.
So what’s my take? China’s cyber game is a mix of speed, scale, and a penchant for infiltrating the very tools we rely on for defense. CISA, under Nick Anderson and with leadership changes pending, is laser-focused on protecting operational tech and critical infrastructure. Their action plan is clear: assess exposure, patch fast, restrict everything, and keep scanning. Whether you’re running a data center, a hospital, or just a fancy smart fridge, tighten up—because Beijing does not sleep.
Thanks for tuning in and listening to Ting rant and report. Don’t forget to subscribe for the latest firewalls and fiascos. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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Hey listeners, Ting here—welcome back to your favorite tech defense briefing on China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense for October 12, 2025. Let’s skip the pleasantries because things have been sizzling in the last 24 hours. If you blinked, you missed something hacked.
Top of the threat list: the **Beamglea Campaign**, which ramped up just yesterday. Chinese cybercriminals abused 175 compromised npm packages and the unpkg CDN for a large-scale phishing spree. These attacks are leveraging cloud-based infrastructure that US startups and Fortune 500 companies trust for deploying web apps. The technique: embed phishing malware in innocent-looking packages that developers download, turning legitimate code into a Trojan horse. This one’s spreading fast, so dev teams, audit every dependency now and check for indicators of compromise—CISA's emergency bulletin spells it out, plus recommends kill-switches and immediate network segmentation for any suspected system.
Over in the world of **malware**, US security pros are racing to counter the fresh variant of Stealit malware, which piggybacks off game and VPN installers. This stealthy beast abuses Node.js's single executable feature, which means it can sneak onto endpoints almost as easily as adding a browser extension. Stealit’s recent wave managed to siphon login credentials from three major US tech firms—one in fintech, one in communications, and another we can’t name (yet). Sophos and Mandiant are ringing the alarm, advising a full sweep for malicious installers and a lockdown on third-party software—even your games aren’t safe.
The **DDoS botnet Aisuru** just set new records striking US ISPs—AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast took the brunt. Nearly 30 trillion bits per second slammed into US infrastructure, traced to compromised IoT devices like smart cameras and routers. This is no random flood; experts say Chinese operators likely orchestrated the botnet’s surge to test domestic resilience. If you run an ISP or host consumer devices, patch everything and isolate infected segments. CISA’s guidance pushes for disabling unused ports and rolling out network-level anomaly detection, pronto.
CISA’s also urging hospitals and biotech to tighten ship after fresh disclosure of Chinese-made medical monitors carrying a backdoor. The FDA and American Hospital Association back this up. At least one common monitor used in US clinics can download unauthorized code remotely—meaning someone in Shenzhen could tweak your ECG with a few keystrokes. Hospitals: apply the recommended firmware patch and isolate these devices to their own VLAN with zero internet access. Biotech firms, heads up: the Senate just advanced the Biosecure Act, aiming to cut federal contracts with Chinese genetic tech suppliers. Anyone in genomics or medical research, reevaluate partnerships immediately.
And last but not least, the **velociraptor tool**—meant for digital forensics—was hijacked by a China-linked crew dubbed Storm-2603. They deployed ransomware via the same DFIR tool US security teams use for incident response. Irony alert: defenders get hacked with their own shield. The immediate fix is restricting tool access and enforcing stricter privilege boundaries on forensics software.
So what’s my take? China’s cyber game is a mix of speed, scale, and a penchant for infiltrating the very tools we rely on for defense. CISA, under Nick Anderson and with leadership changes pending, is laser-focused on protecting operational tech and critical infrastructure. Their action plan is clear: assess exposure, patch fast, restrict everything, and keep scanning. Whether you’re running a data center, a hospital, or just a fancy smart fridge, tighten up—because Beijing does not sleep.
Thanks for tuning in and listening to Ting rant and report. Don’t forget to subscribe for the latest firewalls and fiascos. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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Hey listeners, Ting here—welcome back to your favorite tech defense briefing on China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense for October 12, 2025. Let’s skip the pleasantries because things have been sizzling in the last 24 hours. If you blinked, you missed something hacked.
Top of the threat list: the **Beamglea Campaign**, which ramped up just yesterday. Chinese cybercriminals abused 175 compromised npm packages and the unpkg CDN for a large-scale phishing spree. These attacks are leveraging cloud-based infrastructure that US startups and Fortune 500 companies trust for deploying web apps. The technique: embed phishing malware in innocent-looking packages that developers download, turning legitimate code into a Trojan horse. This one’s spreading fast, so dev teams, audit every dependency now and check for indicators of compromise—CISA's emergency bulletin spells it out, plus recommends kill-switches and immediate network segmentation for any suspected system.
Over in the world of **malware**, US security pros are racing to counter the fresh variant of Stealit malware, which piggybacks off game and VPN installers. This stealthy beast abuses Node.js's single executable feature, which means it can sneak onto endpoints almost as easily as adding a browser extension. Stealit’s recent wave managed to siphon login credentials from three major US tech firms—one in fintech, one in communications, and another we can’t name (yet). Sophos and Mandiant are ringing the alarm, advising a full sweep for malicious installers and a lockdown on third-party software—even your games aren’t safe.
The **DDoS botnet Aisuru** just set new records striking US ISPs—AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast took the brunt. Nearly 30 trillion bits per second slammed into US infrastructure, traced to compromised IoT devices like smart cameras and routers. This is no random flood; experts say Chinese operators likely orchestrated the botnet’s surge to test domestic resilience. If you run an ISP or host consumer devices, patch everything and isolate infected segments. CISA’s guidance pushes for disabling unused ports and rolling out network-level anomaly detection, pronto.
CISA’s also urging hospitals and biotech to tighten ship after fresh disclosure of Chinese-made medical monitors carrying a backdoor. The FDA and American Hospital Association back this up. At least one common monitor used in US clinics can download unauthorized code remotely—meaning someone in Shenzhen could tweak your ECG with a few keystrokes. Hospitals: apply the recommended firmware patch and isolate these devices to their own VLAN with zero internet access. Biotech firms, heads up: the Senate just advanced the Biosecure Act, aiming to cut federal contracts with Chinese genetic tech suppliers. Anyone in genomics or medical research, reevaluate partnerships immediately.
And last but not least, the **velociraptor tool**—meant for digital forensics—was hijacked by a China-linked crew dubbed Storm-2603. They deployed ransomware via the same DFIR tool US security teams use for incident response. Irony alert: defenders get hacked with their own shield. The immediate fix is restricting tool access and enforcing stricter privilege boundaries on forensics software.
So what’s my take? China’s cyber game is a mix of speed, scale, and a penchant for infiltrating the very tools we rely on for defense. CISA, under Nick Anderson and with leadership changes pending, is laser-focused on protecting operational tech and critical infrastructure. Their action plan is clear: assess exposure, patch fast, restrict everything, and keep scanning. Whether you’re running a data center, a hospital, or just a fancy smart fridge, tighten up—because Beijing does not sleep.
Thanks for tuning in and listening to Ting rant and report. Don’t forget to subscribe for the latest firewalls and fiascos. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey listeners, Ting here—welcome back to your favorite tech defense briefing on China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense for October 12, 2025. Let’s skip the pleasantries because things have been sizzling in the last 24 hours. If you blinked, you missed something hacked.
Top of the threat list: the **Beamglea Campaign**, which ramped up just yesterday. Chinese cybercriminals abused 175 compromised npm packages and the unpkg CDN for a large-scale phishing spree. These attacks are leveraging cloud-based infrastructure that US startups and Fortune 500 companies trust for deploying web apps. The technique: embed phishing malware in innocent-looking packages that developers download, turning legitimate code into a Trojan horse. This one’s spreading fast, so dev teams, audit every dependency now and check for indicators of compromise—CISA's emergency bulletin spells it out, plus recommends kill-switches and immediate network segmentation for any suspected system.
Over in the world of **malware**, US security pros are racing to counter the fresh variant of Stealit malware, which piggybacks off game and VPN installers. This stealthy beast abuses Node.js's single executable feature, which means it can sneak onto endpoints almost as easily as adding a browser extension. Stealit’s recent wave managed to siphon login credentials from three major US tech firms—one in fintech, one in communications, and another we can’t name (yet). Sophos and Mandiant are ringing the alarm, advising a full sweep for malicious installers and a lockdown on third-party software—even your games aren’t safe.
The **DDoS botnet Aisuru** just set new records striking US ISPs—AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast took the brunt. Nearly 30 trillion bits per second slammed into US infrastructure, traced to compromised IoT devices like smart cameras and routers. This is no random flood; experts say Chinese operators likely orchestrated the botnet’s surge to test domestic resilience. If you run an ISP or host consumer devices, patch everything and isolate infected segments. CISA’s guidance pushes for disabling unused ports and rolling out network-level anomaly detection, pronto.
CISA’s also urging hospitals and biotech to tighten ship after fresh disclosure of Chinese-made medical monitors carrying a backdoor. The FDA and American Hospital Association back this up. At least one common monitor used in US clinics can download unauthorized code remotely—meaning someone in Shenzhen could tweak your ECG with a few keystrokes. Hospitals: apply the recommended firmware patch and isolate these devices to their own VLAN with zero internet access. Biotech firms, heads up: the Senate just advanced the Biosecure Act, aiming to cut federal contracts with Chinese genetic tech suppliers. Anyone in genomics or medical research, reevaluate partnerships immediately.
And last but not least, the **velociraptor tool**—meant for digital forensics—was hijacked by a China-linked crew dubbed Storm-2603. They deployed ransomware via the same DFIR tool US security teams use for incident response. Irony alert: defenders get hacked with their own shield. The immediate fix is restricting tool access and enforcing stricter privilege boundaries on forensics software.
So what’s my take? China’s cyber game is a mix of speed, scale, and a penchant for infiltrating the very tools we rely on for defense. CISA, under Nick Anderson and with leadership changes pending, is laser-focused on protecting operational tech and critical infrastructure. Their action plan is clear: assess exposure, patch fast, restrict everything, and keep scanning. Whether you’re running a data center, a hospital, or just a fancy smart fridge, tighten up—because Beijing does not sleep.
Thanks for tuning in and listening to Ting rant and report. Don’t forget to subscribe for the latest firewalls and fiascos. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI