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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. Buckle up, because this past week, America's been under a full-on digital dragon siege—Dragon's Code style, straight out of Beijing's playbook. Picture this: Chinese state-sponsored crews, likely tied to the notorious APT41, just gutted the heart of U.S. telecoms. LG Networks reports they slipped into Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies routers like ghosts in the machine, exploiting zero-day vulns in SS7 signaling protocols. For months, undetected, they slurped up call logs, texts, and real-time GPS from over a million users—eavesdropping on your grandma's bingo plans and Cabinet secrets alike.
The real kicker? They zeroed in on Biden holdovers—one Cabinet secretary and a top White House homeland security adviser got VIP treatment. Senator Mark Warner, Senate Intelligence Committee chair, called it "the worst telecom hack in U.S. history" on every news feed. Attribution? FBI and DHS pinned it on China via IP trails bouncing through Hong Kong proxies, malware signatures matching prior PLA ops, and whispers from Five Eyes intel sharing. These weren't smash-and-grab; it was gray-zone mastery—persistent access via supply chain creeps into vendor creds, mapping failover nodes for max chaos with min footprint, as dissected in CyberScoop's op-ed on state power plays.
Defenses kicked in hard: CISA issued patches, forcing router firmware updates and zero-trust segmentation across feds. Telecom giants rolled out AI-driven anomaly detection from CrowdStrike—shoutout to their chief privacy officer Drew Bagley testifying this week on offensive cyber needs. But lessons? We're playing catch-up. Anthropic spilled that Chinese hackers used AI agents for 80-90% of a November 2025 breach, automating intrusions at human-unmatchable speeds, per CFR analysis. Quantum threats loom too—G7 Cyber Expert Group, led by U.S. Treasury's Cory Wilson and Bank of England's Duncan Mackinnon, dropped a post-quantum crypto roadmap today, warning finance grids could shatter under Shor's algorithm.
Experts like Annie Fixler from Foundation for Defense of Democracies say it's all reversible deniability—China hits telecoms and eyes the electric grid as a "strategic military target," per Energy Policy Platform. Government? FBI's probing deep, DoD's begging for 25,000 more cyber hires via Gary Peters and Mike Rounds' bill. My take: Ditch the export loosey-goosey on Nvidia H200s to China; that's jet fuel for their AI hacks. We've gotta go intelligentized like the PLA—AI defense agents, not just patches—or it's game over in this cyber cold war.
Whew, listeners, thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more Ting takes on the digital dragon! 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. Buckle up, because this past week, America's been under a full-on digital dragon siege—Dragon's Code style, straight out of Beijing's playbook. Picture this: Chinese state-sponsored crews, likely tied to the notorious APT41, just gutted the heart of U.S. telecoms. LG Networks reports they slipped into Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies routers like ghosts in the machine, exploiting zero-day vulns in SS7 signaling protocols. For months, undetected, they slurped up call logs, texts, and real-time GPS from over a million users—eavesdropping on your grandma's bingo plans and Cabinet secrets alike.
The real kicker? They zeroed in on Biden holdovers—one Cabinet secretary and a top White House homeland security adviser got VIP treatment. Senator Mark Warner, Senate Intelligence Committee chair, called it "the worst telecom hack in U.S. history" on every news feed. Attribution? FBI and DHS pinned it on China via IP trails bouncing through Hong Kong proxies, malware signatures matching prior PLA ops, and whispers from Five Eyes intel sharing. These weren't smash-and-grab; it was gray-zone mastery—persistent access via supply chain creeps into vendor creds, mapping failover nodes for max chaos with min footprint, as dissected in CyberScoop's op-ed on state power plays.
Defenses kicked in hard: CISA issued patches, forcing router firmware updates and zero-trust segmentation across feds. Telecom giants rolled out AI-driven anomaly detection from CrowdStrike—shoutout to their chief privacy officer Drew Bagley testifying this week on offensive cyber needs. But lessons? We're playing catch-up. Anthropic spilled that Chinese hackers used AI agents for 80-90% of a November 2025 breach, automating intrusions at human-unmatchable speeds, per CFR analysis. Quantum threats loom too—G7 Cyber Expert Group, led by U.S. Treasury's Cory Wilson and Bank of England's Duncan Mackinnon, dropped a post-quantum crypto roadmap today, warning finance grids could shatter under Shor's algorithm.
Experts like Annie Fixler from Foundation for Defense of Democracies say it's all reversible deniability—China hits telecoms and eyes the electric grid as a "strategic military target," per Energy Policy Platform. Government? FBI's probing deep, DoD's begging for 25,000 more cyber hires via Gary Peters and Mike Rounds' bill. My take: Ditch the export loosey-goosey on Nvidia H200s to China; that's jet fuel for their AI hacks. We've gotta go intelligentized like the PLA—AI defense agents, not just patches—or it's game over in this cyber cold war.
Whew, listeners, thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more Ting takes on the digital dragon! 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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By Inception Point AiThis 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. Buckle up, because this past week, America's been under a full-on digital dragon siege—Dragon's Code style, straight out of Beijing's playbook. Picture this: Chinese state-sponsored crews, likely tied to the notorious APT41, just gutted the heart of U.S. telecoms. LG Networks reports they slipped into Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies routers like ghosts in the machine, exploiting zero-day vulns in SS7 signaling protocols. For months, undetected, they slurped up call logs, texts, and real-time GPS from over a million users—eavesdropping on your grandma's bingo plans and Cabinet secrets alike.
The real kicker? They zeroed in on Biden holdovers—one Cabinet secretary and a top White House homeland security adviser got VIP treatment. Senator Mark Warner, Senate Intelligence Committee chair, called it "the worst telecom hack in U.S. history" on every news feed. Attribution? FBI and DHS pinned it on China via IP trails bouncing through Hong Kong proxies, malware signatures matching prior PLA ops, and whispers from Five Eyes intel sharing. These weren't smash-and-grab; it was gray-zone mastery—persistent access via supply chain creeps into vendor creds, mapping failover nodes for max chaos with min footprint, as dissected in CyberScoop's op-ed on state power plays.
Defenses kicked in hard: CISA issued patches, forcing router firmware updates and zero-trust segmentation across feds. Telecom giants rolled out AI-driven anomaly detection from CrowdStrike—shoutout to their chief privacy officer Drew Bagley testifying this week on offensive cyber needs. But lessons? We're playing catch-up. Anthropic spilled that Chinese hackers used AI agents for 80-90% of a November 2025 breach, automating intrusions at human-unmatchable speeds, per CFR analysis. Quantum threats loom too—G7 Cyber Expert Group, led by U.S. Treasury's Cory Wilson and Bank of England's Duncan Mackinnon, dropped a post-quantum crypto roadmap today, warning finance grids could shatter under Shor's algorithm.
Experts like Annie Fixler from Foundation for Defense of Democracies say it's all reversible deniability—China hits telecoms and eyes the electric grid as a "strategic military target," per Energy Policy Platform. Government? FBI's probing deep, DoD's begging for 25,000 more cyber hires via Gary Peters and Mike Rounds' bill. My take: Ditch the export loosey-goosey on Nvidia H200s to China; that's jet fuel for their AI hacks. We've gotta go intelligentized like the PLA—AI defense agents, not just patches—or it's game over in this cyber cold war.
Whew, listeners, thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more Ting takes on the digital dragon! 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. Buckle up, because this past week, America's been under a full-on digital dragon siege—Dragon's Code style, straight out of Beijing's playbook. Picture this: Chinese state-sponsored crews, likely tied to the notorious APT41, just gutted the heart of U.S. telecoms. LG Networks reports they slipped into Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies routers like ghosts in the machine, exploiting zero-day vulns in SS7 signaling protocols. For months, undetected, they slurped up call logs, texts, and real-time GPS from over a million users—eavesdropping on your grandma's bingo plans and Cabinet secrets alike.
The real kicker? They zeroed in on Biden holdovers—one Cabinet secretary and a top White House homeland security adviser got VIP treatment. Senator Mark Warner, Senate Intelligence Committee chair, called it "the worst telecom hack in U.S. history" on every news feed. Attribution? FBI and DHS pinned it on China via IP trails bouncing through Hong Kong proxies, malware signatures matching prior PLA ops, and whispers from Five Eyes intel sharing. These weren't smash-and-grab; it was gray-zone mastery—persistent access via supply chain creeps into vendor creds, mapping failover nodes for max chaos with min footprint, as dissected in CyberScoop's op-ed on state power plays.
Defenses kicked in hard: CISA issued patches, forcing router firmware updates and zero-trust segmentation across feds. Telecom giants rolled out AI-driven anomaly detection from CrowdStrike—shoutout to their chief privacy officer Drew Bagley testifying this week on offensive cyber needs. But lessons? We're playing catch-up. Anthropic spilled that Chinese hackers used AI agents for 80-90% of a November 2025 breach, automating intrusions at human-unmatchable speeds, per CFR analysis. Quantum threats loom too—G7 Cyber Expert Group, led by U.S. Treasury's Cory Wilson and Bank of England's Duncan Mackinnon, dropped a post-quantum crypto roadmap today, warning finance grids could shatter under Shor's algorithm.
Experts like Annie Fixler from Foundation for Defense of Democracies say it's all reversible deniability—China hits telecoms and eyes the electric grid as a "strategic military target," per Energy Policy Platform. Government? FBI's probing deep, DoD's begging for 25,000 more cyber hires via Gary Peters and Mike Rounds' bill. My take: Ditch the export loosey-goosey on Nvidia H200s to China; that's jet fuel for their AI hacks. We've gotta go intelligentized like the PLA—AI defense agents, not just patches—or it's game over in this cyber cold war.
Whew, listeners, thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more Ting takes on the digital dragon! 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