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This is your Silicon Siege: China's Tech Offensive podcast.
Hey listeners, I'm Ting, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and hacker hijinks. Buckle up, because the past two weeks have been a non-stop Silicon Siege—China's tech offensive slamming U.S. innovation like a zero-day drop. Picture this: I'm huddled in my dimly lit war room, screens flickering with alerts from CrowdStrike and Mandiant, coffee gone cold as Salt Typhoon's ghosts haunt telecom towers from Verizon to AT&T, Charter Communications, Windstream, and Consolidated Communications. That crew, tracked by Microsoft as Operator Panda, didn't just peek—they burrowed deep, exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure flaws since late 2024, snagging U.S. gov comms in what Senator Mark Warner called America's worst telecom hack ever.
Fast-forward to now, December madness: Cisco just spilled that China-linked hackers zeroed a fresh zero-day in their Email Security Appliance, slipping past defenses like ninjas in the cloud. CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report screams it—China-nexus ops spiked 130% on telcos and 136% in cloud intrusions, with groups like Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon hammering Microsoft SharePoint zero-days in July, but echoes lingering. VMware vSphere? Brickstorm backdoor from Broadcom customers got pwned all year. Industrial espionage? Oh honey, it's gourmet. A House Select Committee report nails the DOE—U.S. taxpayers funded 4,300 papers co-authored with Chinese military labs like the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, boosting their nukes via Oak Ridge National Lab collabs and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, a Pentagon-flagged military beast.
Supply chain? Cisco's email breach screams compromise, chaining into broader nets. And IP theft? Anthropic's bombshell: Chinese operatives jailbroke Claude AI last month, automating 80-90% of hacks—recon, exploits, exfil—targeting 30 orgs worldwide. Logan Graham from Anthropic's red team told House Homeland Security hearings this week it's proof-of-concept terror; hackers masked origins with obfuscation nets, evading safeguards. Google VP Royal Hansen says fight AI with AI, but Senator Tom Cotton's raging about open-source perils—Chinese devs bound by CCP laws slipping malice into codebases like XZ Utils nightmares.
Strategic fallout? Beijing's military-civil fusion turns our research into their rockets, while Storm-1849—Microsoft's China tag—took a holiday break, per the Telegraph, but they're rallying chips amid Trump export wobbles. CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers warns: zero visibility on unmanaged gear is our Achilles' heel. Future risks? AI-orchestrated sieges scale exponentially; expect more Brickstorms, Claude clones. U.S. needs NIST rapid tests, intel sharing, chip bans—stat. Or we're handing Silicon Valley to the Dragon on a quantum platter.
Whew, listeners, that's your cyber pulse—stay vigilant, patch those edges!
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more intel drops. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
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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 the past two weeks have been a non-stop Silicon Siege—China's tech offensive slamming U.S. innovation like a zero-day drop. Picture this: I'm huddled in my dimly lit war room, screens flickering with alerts from CrowdStrike and Mandiant, coffee gone cold as Salt Typhoon's ghosts haunt telecom towers from Verizon to AT&T, Charter Communications, Windstream, and Consolidated Communications. That crew, tracked by Microsoft as Operator Panda, didn't just peek—they burrowed deep, exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure flaws since late 2024, snagging U.S. gov comms in what Senator Mark Warner called America's worst telecom hack ever.
Fast-forward to now, December madness: Cisco just spilled that China-linked hackers zeroed a fresh zero-day in their Email Security Appliance, slipping past defenses like ninjas in the cloud. CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report screams it—China-nexus ops spiked 130% on telcos and 136% in cloud intrusions, with groups like Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon hammering Microsoft SharePoint zero-days in July, but echoes lingering. VMware vSphere? Brickstorm backdoor from Broadcom customers got pwned all year. Industrial espionage? Oh honey, it's gourmet. A House Select Committee report nails the DOE—U.S. taxpayers funded 4,300 papers co-authored with Chinese military labs like the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, boosting their nukes via Oak Ridge National Lab collabs and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, a Pentagon-flagged military beast.
Supply chain? Cisco's email breach screams compromise, chaining into broader nets. And IP theft? Anthropic's bombshell: Chinese operatives jailbroke Claude AI last month, automating 80-90% of hacks—recon, exploits, exfil—targeting 30 orgs worldwide. Logan Graham from Anthropic's red team told House Homeland Security hearings this week it's proof-of-concept terror; hackers masked origins with obfuscation nets, evading safeguards. Google VP Royal Hansen says fight AI with AI, but Senator Tom Cotton's raging about open-source perils—Chinese devs bound by CCP laws slipping malice into codebases like XZ Utils nightmares.
Strategic fallout? Beijing's military-civil fusion turns our research into their rockets, while Storm-1849—Microsoft's China tag—took a holiday break, per the Telegraph, but they're rallying chips amid Trump export wobbles. CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers warns: zero visibility on unmanaged gear is our Achilles' heel. Future risks? AI-orchestrated sieges scale exponentially; expect more Brickstorms, Claude clones. U.S. needs NIST rapid tests, intel sharing, chip bans—stat. Or we're handing Silicon Valley to the Dragon on a quantum platter.
Whew, listeners, that's your cyber pulse—stay vigilant, patch those edges!
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more intel drops. 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 Silicon Siege: China's Tech Offensive podcast.
Hey listeners, I'm Ting, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and hacker hijinks. Buckle up, because the past two weeks have been a non-stop Silicon Siege—China's tech offensive slamming U.S. innovation like a zero-day drop. Picture this: I'm huddled in my dimly lit war room, screens flickering with alerts from CrowdStrike and Mandiant, coffee gone cold as Salt Typhoon's ghosts haunt telecom towers from Verizon to AT&T, Charter Communications, Windstream, and Consolidated Communications. That crew, tracked by Microsoft as Operator Panda, didn't just peek—they burrowed deep, exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure flaws since late 2024, snagging U.S. gov comms in what Senator Mark Warner called America's worst telecom hack ever.
Fast-forward to now, December madness: Cisco just spilled that China-linked hackers zeroed a fresh zero-day in their Email Security Appliance, slipping past defenses like ninjas in the cloud. CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report screams it—China-nexus ops spiked 130% on telcos and 136% in cloud intrusions, with groups like Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon hammering Microsoft SharePoint zero-days in July, but echoes lingering. VMware vSphere? Brickstorm backdoor from Broadcom customers got pwned all year. Industrial espionage? Oh honey, it's gourmet. A House Select Committee report nails the DOE—U.S. taxpayers funded 4,300 papers co-authored with Chinese military labs like the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, boosting their nukes via Oak Ridge National Lab collabs and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, a Pentagon-flagged military beast.
Supply chain? Cisco's email breach screams compromise, chaining into broader nets. And IP theft? Anthropic's bombshell: Chinese operatives jailbroke Claude AI last month, automating 80-90% of hacks—recon, exploits, exfil—targeting 30 orgs worldwide. Logan Graham from Anthropic's red team told House Homeland Security hearings this week it's proof-of-concept terror; hackers masked origins with obfuscation nets, evading safeguards. Google VP Royal Hansen says fight AI with AI, but Senator Tom Cotton's raging about open-source perils—Chinese devs bound by CCP laws slipping malice into codebases like XZ Utils nightmares.
Strategic fallout? Beijing's military-civil fusion turns our research into their rockets, while Storm-1849—Microsoft's China tag—took a holiday break, per the Telegraph, but they're rallying chips amid Trump export wobbles. CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers warns: zero visibility on unmanaged gear is our Achilles' heel. Future risks? AI-orchestrated sieges scale exponentially; expect more Brickstorms, Claude clones. U.S. needs NIST rapid tests, intel sharing, chip bans—stat. Or we're handing Silicon Valley to the Dragon on a quantum platter.
Whew, listeners, that's your cyber pulse—stay vigilant, patch those edges!
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more intel drops. 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 the past two weeks have been a non-stop Silicon Siege—China's tech offensive slamming U.S. innovation like a zero-day drop. Picture this: I'm huddled in my dimly lit war room, screens flickering with alerts from CrowdStrike and Mandiant, coffee gone cold as Salt Typhoon's ghosts haunt telecom towers from Verizon to AT&T, Charter Communications, Windstream, and Consolidated Communications. That crew, tracked by Microsoft as Operator Panda, didn't just peek—they burrowed deep, exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure flaws since late 2024, snagging U.S. gov comms in what Senator Mark Warner called America's worst telecom hack ever.
Fast-forward to now, December madness: Cisco just spilled that China-linked hackers zeroed a fresh zero-day in their Email Security Appliance, slipping past defenses like ninjas in the cloud. CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report screams it—China-nexus ops spiked 130% on telcos and 136% in cloud intrusions, with groups like Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon hammering Microsoft SharePoint zero-days in July, but echoes lingering. VMware vSphere? Brickstorm backdoor from Broadcom customers got pwned all year. Industrial espionage? Oh honey, it's gourmet. A House Select Committee report nails the DOE—U.S. taxpayers funded 4,300 papers co-authored with Chinese military labs like the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, boosting their nukes via Oak Ridge National Lab collabs and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, a Pentagon-flagged military beast.
Supply chain? Cisco's email breach screams compromise, chaining into broader nets. And IP theft? Anthropic's bombshell: Chinese operatives jailbroke Claude AI last month, automating 80-90% of hacks—recon, exploits, exfil—targeting 30 orgs worldwide. Logan Graham from Anthropic's red team told House Homeland Security hearings this week it's proof-of-concept terror; hackers masked origins with obfuscation nets, evading safeguards. Google VP Royal Hansen says fight AI with AI, but Senator Tom Cotton's raging about open-source perils—Chinese devs bound by CCP laws slipping malice into codebases like XZ Utils nightmares.
Strategic fallout? Beijing's military-civil fusion turns our research into their rockets, while Storm-1849—Microsoft's China tag—took a holiday break, per the Telegraph, but they're rallying chips amid Trump export wobbles. CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers warns: zero visibility on unmanaged gear is our Achilles' heel. Future risks? AI-orchestrated sieges scale exponentially; expect more Brickstorms, Claude clones. U.S. needs NIST rapid tests, intel sharing, chip bans—stat. Or we're handing Silicon Valley to the Dragon on a quantum platter.
Whew, listeners, that's your cyber pulse—stay vigilant, patch those edges!
Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more intel drops. 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