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Pentagon Drops Cyber Bombshell: China's Attacks Skyrocket 150%, Salt Typhoon Crew Still Prowling
This is your Tech Shield: US vs China Updates podcast.
Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and US shields. Buckle up, because this week's been a wild ride in the US-China cyber showdown—straight from the Pentagon's scorching 2025 Military and Security Developments report dropped just yesterday, December 29th. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, coffee in hand, as Beijing's PLA flexes across nukes, hypersonics, and cyber ops that could make your router weep.
First off, the big bombshell—Pentagon brass confirm China's cyber game is peaking, with attacks up 150% in 2024 alone. Remember Salt Typhoon? That sneaky crew, fingered by FBI and CISA alerts this year, burrowed into nine US telecom giants for up to two years, plus hits on energy, water, and transport. FinanceWire reports they're still prowling aging infrastructure, hitting 200 orgs in 80 countries by late August. US response? Actelis Networks is stepping up with Cyber Aware Networking—AI that spots anomalies in real-time, 256-bit MACsec encryption, and data scrambling for IoT edges. They've locked down German utilities and Italian motorways; stateside, it's modernizing pipes before Beijing turns 'em into spy cams.
Government side, CISA, NSA, and FBI joint warnings scream urgency—70% of 2024 attacks targeted critical infra. No fresh patches this week, but the Pentagon's report spotlights Volt Typhoon too, prepping disruptions for a Taiwan scrap. Xi Jinping's crew is eyeing 1,000+ nukes by 2030, launch-on-warning doctrines, and silo fields in Sichuan's Pingtong—Washington Post satellite snaps show plutonium pits booming. Cyber ties in: they're closing the LLM gap, per SCWorld, fueling smarter hacks.
Industry's hustling—US military's gone all-in on AI defenses, per Military.com's 2025 review. Coast Guard's inventorying AI tools, mandating approved feds over sketchy commercial ones to shield data. Predictive maintenance cuts breakdowns, ops centers plan faster. Expert take? Craig Singleton from Foundation for Defense of Democracies nails it: contradiction city—China's Taiwan drills today around key ports, sanctioning 20 US firms over $10B arms sales, yet Trump 2.0 chats "stable peace." Effectiveness? Solid patches like Actelis plug edges, AI governance limits dumb errors, but gaps scream: legacy infra's a sitting duck, no silver bullet for state-sponsored persistence.
Witty aside: China's Global Times calls it "hype," but Song Zhongping's spin won't silo those YJ-21 hypersonics. US needs microsegmentation, immutable backups, and patch blitzes yesterday—ransomware lessons from CM-Alliance echo that. Emerging tech like AI anomaly hunters? Game-changer, but train 'em right or it's garbage in, escalation out.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners—hit 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, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and US shields. Buckle up, because this week's been a wild ride in the US-China cyber showdown—straight from the Pentagon's scorching 2025 Military and Security Developments report dropped just yesterday, December 29th. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, coffee in hand, as Beijing's PLA flexes across nukes, hypersonics, and cyber ops that could make your router weep.
First off, the big bombshell—Pentagon brass confirm China's cyber game is peaking, with attacks up 150% in 2024 alone. Remember Salt Typhoon? That sneaky crew, fingered by FBI and CISA alerts this year, burrowed into nine US telecom giants for up to two years, plus hits on energy, water, and transport. FinanceWire reports they're still prowling aging infrastructure, hitting 200 orgs in 80 countries by late August. US response? Actelis Networks is stepping up with Cyber Aware Networking—AI that spots anomalies in real-time, 256-bit MACsec encryption, and data scrambling for IoT edges. They've locked down German utilities and Italian motorways; stateside, it's modernizing pipes before Beijing turns 'em into spy cams.
Government side, CISA, NSA, and FBI joint warnings scream urgency—70% of 2024 attacks targeted critical infra. No fresh patches this week, but the Pentagon's report spotlights Volt Typhoon too, prepping disruptions for a Taiwan scrap. Xi Jinping's crew is eyeing 1,000+ nukes by 2030, launch-on-warning doctrines, and silo fields in Sichuan's Pingtong—Washington Post satellite snaps show plutonium pits booming. Cyber ties in: they're closing the LLM gap, per SCWorld, fueling smarter hacks.
Industry's hustling—US military's gone all-in on AI defenses, per Military.com's 2025 review. Coast Guard's inventorying AI tools, mandating approved feds over sketchy commercial ones to shield data. Predictive maintenance cuts breakdowns, ops centers plan faster. Expert take? Craig Singleton from Foundation for Defense of Democracies nails it: contradiction city—China's Taiwan drills today around key ports, sanctioning 20 US firms over $10B arms sales, yet Trump 2.0 chats "stable peace." Effectiveness? Solid patches like Actelis plug edges, AI governance limits dumb errors, but gaps scream: legacy infra's a sitting duck, no silver bullet for state-sponsored persistence.
Witty aside: China's Global Times calls it "hype," but Song Zhongping's spin won't silo those YJ-21 hypersonics. US needs microsegmentation, immutable backups, and patch blitzes yesterday—ransomware lessons from CM-Alliance echo that. Emerging tech like AI anomaly hunters? Game-changer, but train 'em right or it's garbage in, escalation out.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners—hit 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, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and US shields. Buckle up, because this week's been a wild ride in the US-China cyber showdown—straight from the Pentagon's scorching 2025 Military and Security Developments report dropped just yesterday, December 29th. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, coffee in hand, as Beijing's PLA flexes across nukes, hypersonics, and cyber ops that could make your router weep.
First off, the big bombshell—Pentagon brass confirm China's cyber game is peaking, with attacks up 150% in 2024 alone. Remember Salt Typhoon? That sneaky crew, fingered by FBI and CISA alerts this year, burrowed into nine US telecom giants for up to two years, plus hits on energy, water, and transport. FinanceWire reports they're still prowling aging infrastructure, hitting 200 orgs in 80 countries by late August. US response? Actelis Networks is stepping up with Cyber Aware Networking—AI that spots anomalies in real-time, 256-bit MACsec encryption, and data scrambling for IoT edges. They've locked down German utilities and Italian motorways; stateside, it's modernizing pipes before Beijing turns 'em into spy cams.
Government side, CISA, NSA, and FBI joint warnings scream urgency—70% of 2024 attacks targeted critical infra. No fresh patches this week, but the Pentagon's report spotlights Volt Typhoon too, prepping disruptions for a Taiwan scrap. Xi Jinping's crew is eyeing 1,000+ nukes by 2030, launch-on-warning doctrines, and silo fields in Sichuan's Pingtong—Washington Post satellite snaps show plutonium pits booming. Cyber ties in: they're closing the LLM gap, per SCWorld, fueling smarter hacks.
Industry's hustling—US military's gone all-in on AI defenses, per Military.com's 2025 review. Coast Guard's inventorying AI tools, mandating approved feds over sketchy commercial ones to shield data. Predictive maintenance cuts breakdowns, ops centers plan faster. Expert take? Craig Singleton from Foundation for Defense of Democracies nails it: contradiction city—China's Taiwan drills today around key ports, sanctioning 20 US firms over $10B arms sales, yet Trump 2.0 chats "stable peace." Effectiveness? Solid patches like Actelis plug edges, AI governance limits dumb errors, but gaps scream: legacy infra's a sitting duck, no silver bullet for state-sponsored persistence.
Witty aside: China's Global Times calls it "hype," but Song Zhongping's spin won't silo those YJ-21 hypersonics. US needs microsegmentation, immutable backups, and patch blitzes yesterday—ransomware lessons from CM-Alliance echo that. Emerging tech like AI anomaly hunters? Game-changer, but train 'em right or it's garbage in, escalation out.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners—hit 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, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and US shields. Buckle up, because this week's been a wild ride in the US-China cyber showdown—straight from the Pentagon's scorching 2025 Military and Security Developments report dropped just yesterday, December 29th. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, coffee in hand, as Beijing's PLA flexes across nukes, hypersonics, and cyber ops that could make your router weep.
First off, the big bombshell—Pentagon brass confirm China's cyber game is peaking, with attacks up 150% in 2024 alone. Remember Salt Typhoon? That sneaky crew, fingered by FBI and CISA alerts this year, burrowed into nine US telecom giants for up to two years, plus hits on energy, water, and transport. FinanceWire reports they're still prowling aging infrastructure, hitting 200 orgs in 80 countries by late August. US response? Actelis Networks is stepping up with Cyber Aware Networking—AI that spots anomalies in real-time, 256-bit MACsec encryption, and data scrambling for IoT edges. They've locked down German utilities and Italian motorways; stateside, it's modernizing pipes before Beijing turns 'em into spy cams.
Government side, CISA, NSA, and FBI joint warnings scream urgency—70% of 2024 attacks targeted critical infra. No fresh patches this week, but the Pentagon's report spotlights Volt Typhoon too, prepping disruptions for a Taiwan scrap. Xi Jinping's crew is eyeing 1,000+ nukes by 2030, launch-on-warning doctrines, and silo fields in Sichuan's Pingtong—Washington Post satellite snaps show plutonium pits booming. Cyber ties in: they're closing the LLM gap, per SCWorld, fueling smarter hacks.
Industry's hustling—US military's gone all-in on AI defenses, per Military.com's 2025 review. Coast Guard's inventorying AI tools, mandating approved feds over sketchy commercial ones to shield data. Predictive maintenance cuts breakdowns, ops centers plan faster. Expert take? Craig Singleton from Foundation for Defense of Democracies nails it: contradiction city—China's Taiwan drills today around key ports, sanctioning 20 US firms over $10B arms sales, yet Trump 2.0 chats "stable peace." Effectiveness? Solid patches like Actelis plug edges, AI governance limits dumb errors, but gaps scream: legacy infra's a sitting duck, no silver bullet for state-sponsored persistence.
Witty aside: China's Global Times calls it "hype," but Song Zhongping's spin won't silo those YJ-21 hypersonics. US needs microsegmentation, immutable backups, and patch blitzes yesterday—ransomware lessons from CM-Alliance echo that. Emerging tech like AI anomaly hunters? Game-changer, but train 'em right or it's garbage in, escalation out.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners—hit 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