This is your Silicon Siege: China's Tech Offensive podcast.

Silicon Siege isn’t the title of a sci-fi thriller—unfortunately for us—it’s just life now in global cybersecurity. I'm Ting, your cyber sherpa through the labyrinth of the last two weeks, and wow, have the threats from Chinese actors revved up to a whole new level. Buckle up, listeners.

Let’s start with the big headline: a mammoth advisory on September 3rd, where the US and a rare coalition—think Five Eyes plus Germany, Italy, Japan, and basically all the folks who know a firewall from a firewall pizza oven—publicly named and shamed three Chinese tech firms: Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong Information Technology, and Sichuan Zhixin Ruijie. Why? All allegedly acting as “cyber mercenaries” for China’s intelligence services. The most notorious of the bunch, Sichuan Juxinhe, is now on the US Treasury’s sanctions list for its alleged ties to the Salt Typhoon hacking group. According to Reuters and veteran analyst Raphael Satter, Salt Typhoon specializes in gobbling up call records of Americans—including government bigwigs. Sicilian phone-tapping, but with fewer pizza breaks and way more malware.

Espionage is no longer a shadowy game of spies and cloakrooms. Last week, according to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. authorities investigated a convincing malware email posing as Representative John Moolenaar. Cyber analysts quickly traced the digital fingerprints to APT41—one of Beijing’s elite hacking squads. The goal? Snoop on trade negotiating teams ahead of crunch talks in Sweden. APT41’s gambit: embed malware in draft legislation to secretly siphon strategy to Beijing. The FBI and Capitol Police are still chasing leads, and Rep. Moolenaar is—rightly—pretty miffed about being used as Trojan horse fodder.

Supply chain compromise, anyone? The U.S. Commerce Department is prepping new rules that could slam the brakes on imports of Chinese drones and heavy vehicles, due to fears DJI and Autel—China’s drone juggernauts—are vacuuming up sensitive U.S. infrastructure data. Remember, these two giants dominate 90% of America’s commercial drone sales. If these rules kick in, businesses from real estate to agriculture might suddenly find out what life is like without a cheap eye in the sky. Security blogger Ming Lee calls this “the weaponization of supply dependencies”—and after Beijing cut off components to Skydio in retaliation for Taiwan sales, that description seems spot on.

Industry experts like Edwin Foster warn that China’s 2025 Cybersecurity Law and the U.S. OIP ban on investments in Chinese semi and AI are fragmenting global tech regulations, making it harder for cross-border innovation—but maybe a necessary evil. AI-powered supply chain hacks are surging, and attackers are getting bolder. Security firms like AttackIQ are rushing to plug these gaps with zero-trust architectures, but the arms race is relentless.

Bottom line, listeners: China’s cyber offense is relentless, sophisticated, and has moved way beyond phishing attempts from mysterious “crown princes.” Strategic espionage, upended supply chains, and IP theft aren’t just threats—they’re today’s boardroom realities. Experts agree that advanced persistent threats are the new normal, and if you’re running a US tech or manufacturing outfit, you are, like it or not, part of Silicon Siege.

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