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This is your Dragon's Code: America Under Cyber Siege podcast.
Hey listeners, I'm Ting, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and hacker hijinks. Picture this: it's been a wild week in the cyber trenches, with Beijing's digital ninjas turning America's infrastructure into their personal playground. We're talking Dragon's Code: America Under Cyber Siege, straight out of the shadows of early 2026.
Let's kick off with Salt Typhoon, that notorious Chinese state-backed crew. According to US intelligence shared via The Telegraph, they've been burrowing into telecom giants like a rootkit on steroids, pre-positioning for the big blackout. Think Volt Typhoon 2.0—their 2023 playbook exposed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, where hackers lurked dormant in US power grids, water systems, and comms networks. This week, fresh whispers from Homeland Security Today warn they're syncing cyber ops with real-world tensions, slipping malware into industrial control systems. Attack methodology? Sneaky living-off-the-land tricks: abusing legit tools like Sangfor software for DLL side-loading, dropping COOLCLIENT backdoors as Mustang Panda did in 2025 against Asian govs and telcos, per The Hacker News. They spoof sensor data—transformers fry while control rooms show green lights, just like Stuxnet's centrifuge spin-out or Russia's Industroyer on Ukraine's grid.
Affected systems? Power substations from California to the Eastern seaboard, per Insurance Journal's grid sabotage deep-dive. Attribution? IP trails, OPSEC slips, and C2 servers screaming PRC, nailed by Symantec and Check Point Research's 2026 report on industrialized Chinese ops. Evidence piles up: metadata grabs from hacked Downing Street phones under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak—yeah, Salt Typhoon hit Five Eyes hard, as Anne Neuberger from the National Security Council blasted.
Defenses? US Cyber Command's "defend forward" hunts threats abroad, while CISA pushes zero-trust and secure-by-design—no default passwords, folks. But Matthew Ferren from the Council on Foreign Relations slams the offense-first Trump strategy in HSToday: China's ecosystem regenerates faster than we can whack it. Experts like Check Point's crew highlight AI-boosted malware like VoidLink, a cloud-first Linux beast traced to a Chinese solo dev using TRAE SOLO AI in under a week.
Lessons learned? Ditch checklist compliance for real resilience—verify physical machinery, not just screens. Myunghee Lee at Michigan State nails it: US-China tech rivalry demands hardened infra over endless disruption. Beijing denies it all, but their hackers are scripting our siege.
Whew, stay vigilant, listeners—patch those edges! Thanks for tuning in; subscribe for more cyber spice. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.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, I'm Ting, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and hacker hijinks. Picture this: it's been a wild week in the cyber trenches, with Beijing's digital ninjas turning America's infrastructure into their personal playground. We're talking Dragon's Code: America Under Cyber Siege, straight out of the shadows of early 2026.
Let's kick off with Salt Typhoon, that notorious Chinese state-backed crew. According to US intelligence shared via The Telegraph, they've been burrowing into telecom giants like a rootkit on steroids, pre-positioning for the big blackout. Think Volt Typhoon 2.0—their 2023 playbook exposed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, where hackers lurked dormant in US power grids, water systems, and comms networks. This week, fresh whispers from Homeland Security Today warn they're syncing cyber ops with real-world tensions, slipping malware into industrial control systems. Attack methodology? Sneaky living-off-the-land tricks: abusing legit tools like Sangfor software for DLL side-loading, dropping COOLCLIENT backdoors as Mustang Panda did in 2025 against Asian govs and telcos, per The Hacker News. They spoof sensor data—transformers fry while control rooms show green lights, just like Stuxnet's centrifuge spin-out or Russia's Industroyer on Ukraine's grid.
Affected systems? Power substations from California to the Eastern seaboard, per Insurance Journal's grid sabotage deep-dive. Attribution? IP trails, OPSEC slips, and C2 servers screaming PRC, nailed by Symantec and Check Point Research's 2026 report on industrialized Chinese ops. Evidence piles up: metadata grabs from hacked Downing Street phones under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak—yeah, Salt Typhoon hit Five Eyes hard, as Anne Neuberger from the National Security Council blasted.
Defenses? US Cyber Command's "defend forward" hunts threats abroad, while CISA pushes zero-trust and secure-by-design—no default passwords, folks. But Matthew Ferren from the Council on Foreign Relations slams the offense-first Trump strategy in HSToday: China's ecosystem regenerates faster than we can whack it. Experts like Check Point's crew highlight AI-boosted malware like VoidLink, a cloud-first Linux beast traced to a Chinese solo dev using TRAE SOLO AI in under a week.
Lessons learned? Ditch checklist compliance for real resilience—verify physical machinery, not just screens. Myunghee Lee at Michigan State nails it: US-China tech rivalry demands hardened infra over endless disruption. Beijing denies it all, but their hackers are scripting our siege.
Whew, stay vigilant, listeners—patch those edges! Thanks for tuning in; subscribe for more cyber spice. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.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, I'm Ting, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and hacker hijinks. Picture this: it's been a wild week in the cyber trenches, with Beijing's digital ninjas turning America's infrastructure into their personal playground. We're talking Dragon's Code: America Under Cyber Siege, straight out of the shadows of early 2026.
Let's kick off with Salt Typhoon, that notorious Chinese state-backed crew. According to US intelligence shared via The Telegraph, they've been burrowing into telecom giants like a rootkit on steroids, pre-positioning for the big blackout. Think Volt Typhoon 2.0—their 2023 playbook exposed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, where hackers lurked dormant in US power grids, water systems, and comms networks. This week, fresh whispers from Homeland Security Today warn they're syncing cyber ops with real-world tensions, slipping malware into industrial control systems. Attack methodology? Sneaky living-off-the-land tricks: abusing legit tools like Sangfor software for DLL side-loading, dropping COOLCLIENT backdoors as Mustang Panda did in 2025 against Asian govs and telcos, per The Hacker News. They spoof sensor data—transformers fry while control rooms show green lights, just like Stuxnet's centrifuge spin-out or Russia's Industroyer on Ukraine's grid.
Affected systems? Power substations from California to the Eastern seaboard, per Insurance Journal's grid sabotage deep-dive. Attribution? IP trails, OPSEC slips, and C2 servers screaming PRC, nailed by Symantec and Check Point Research's 2026 report on industrialized Chinese ops. Evidence piles up: metadata grabs from hacked Downing Street phones under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak—yeah, Salt Typhoon hit Five Eyes hard, as Anne Neuberger from the National Security Council blasted.
Defenses? US Cyber Command's "defend forward" hunts threats abroad, while CISA pushes zero-trust and secure-by-design—no default passwords, folks. But Matthew Ferren from the Council on Foreign Relations slams the offense-first Trump strategy in HSToday: China's ecosystem regenerates faster than we can whack it. Experts like Check Point's crew highlight AI-boosted malware like VoidLink, a cloud-first Linux beast traced to a Chinese solo dev using TRAE SOLO AI in under a week.
Lessons learned? Ditch checklist compliance for real resilience—verify physical machinery, not just screens. Myunghee Lee at Michigan State nails it: US-China tech rivalry demands hardened infra over endless disruption. Beijing denies it all, but their hackers are scripting our siege.
Whew, stay vigilant, listeners—patch those edges! Thanks for tuning in; subscribe for more cyber spice. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.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, I'm Ting, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and hacker hijinks. Picture this: it's been a wild week in the cyber trenches, with Beijing's digital ninjas turning America's infrastructure into their personal playground. We're talking Dragon's Code: America Under Cyber Siege, straight out of the shadows of early 2026.
Let's kick off with Salt Typhoon, that notorious Chinese state-backed crew. According to US intelligence shared via The Telegraph, they've been burrowing into telecom giants like a rootkit on steroids, pre-positioning for the big blackout. Think Volt Typhoon 2.0—their 2023 playbook exposed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, where hackers lurked dormant in US power grids, water systems, and comms networks. This week, fresh whispers from Homeland Security Today warn they're syncing cyber ops with real-world tensions, slipping malware into industrial control systems. Attack methodology? Sneaky living-off-the-land tricks: abusing legit tools like Sangfor software for DLL side-loading, dropping COOLCLIENT backdoors as Mustang Panda did in 2025 against Asian govs and telcos, per The Hacker News. They spoof sensor data—transformers fry while control rooms show green lights, just like Stuxnet's centrifuge spin-out or Russia's Industroyer on Ukraine's grid.
Affected systems? Power substations from California to the Eastern seaboard, per Insurance Journal's grid sabotage deep-dive. Attribution? IP trails, OPSEC slips, and C2 servers screaming PRC, nailed by Symantec and Check Point Research's 2026 report on industrialized Chinese ops. Evidence piles up: metadata grabs from hacked Downing Street phones under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak—yeah, Salt Typhoon hit Five Eyes hard, as Anne Neuberger from the National Security Council blasted.
Defenses? US Cyber Command's "defend forward" hunts threats abroad, while CISA pushes zero-trust and secure-by-design—no default passwords, folks. But Matthew Ferren from the Council on Foreign Relations slams the offense-first Trump strategy in HSToday: China's ecosystem regenerates faster than we can whack it. Experts like Check Point's crew highlight AI-boosted malware like VoidLink, a cloud-first Linux beast traced to a Chinese solo dev using TRAE SOLO AI in under a week.
Lessons learned? Ditch checklist compliance for real resilience—verify physical machinery, not just screens. Myunghee Lee at Michigan State nails it: US-China tech rivalry demands hardened infra over endless disruption. Beijing denies it all, but their hackers are scripting our siege.
Whew, stay vigilant, listeners—patch those edges! Thanks for tuning in; subscribe for more cyber spice. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.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