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Hey listeners, Ting here—your favorite cyber sleuth with too much caffeine and way too much data. Forget the chitchat, because the past two weeks just gifted us a Silicon Siege worthy of Black Mirror fanfiction, but this is happening now.

Step one in China’s tech offensive: the New York telecom plot. Federal agents unearthed a gigantic scheme involving over 300 covert SIM card servers and more than 100,000 SIM cards hidden throughout Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Picture this: abandoned buildings lined with SIM farms pumping out millions of anonymous texts per minute, ready to jam emergency networks, disrupt cell towers, and piggyback on US carriers during none-other-than the United Nations General Assembly. The Secret Service, channeling their best action-movie energy, swooped in and seized the gear just as global leaders arrived. The equipment was traced back to Chinese entities with patterns matching previous operations. According to ABC News, calls were flying at telecom summits—this method could overwhelm networks without a single fancy exploit, making it a denial-of-service fever dream for hackers. Telco insiders and Department of Homeland Security folks are calling this a “wake-up call,” and rightfully so. Imagine the ripple effects for emergency services, Wall Street, and anything data-dependent in the city that never sleeps.

But wait, let’s talk supply chains. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, that very same company sending Internet and rockets to Ukraine, is facing scrutiny, thanks to a Delaware court bombshell. Testimony from investor Iqbaljit Kahlon revealed that Chinese investors have direct stakes in SpaceX’s cap table—not just those sly offshore Cayman funds we all hear whispers about. National security expert Sarah Bauerle Danzman called it “potential espionage in sensitive industries.” The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) is now sniffing around, because when your rockets carry Pentagon spy satellites and classified Starlink hardware, direct ownership by foreign entities becomes an instant page one risk. SpaceX’s CFO Bret Johnsen openly discussed “policy of obfuscation,” which is basically lawyer-speak for “don’t ask, don’t tell, and don’t look at our shareholder ledger.” If you’re into 2025 conspiracy bingo, this one’s a full card.

Meanwhile, industry experts like Madeleine Chang from the Satellite Industry Association are prepping for Shanghai’s World Radiocommunication Conference, where spectrum allocation gets decided for the planet. With 80% of agenda items revolving around space, Chang warns US delegates about espionage risk—hardware blueprints can get swiped over a hotel Wi-Fi or, in some cases, at actual customs points. Huawei is everywhere on this front, always pushing the envelope in the upper 6 and 7 gigahertz bands, directly against US interests. Sal Austin of DGX Security said the future of US broadband “can’t be decided in Geneva or Beijing.” Wise words.

IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index dropped the mic: manufacturing in APAC, and especially the US, remains the juiciest target, with relentless stealth attacks and supply chain compromises. Add the ENISA Threat Landscape report, spotlighting Chinese groups infiltrating digital infrastructure, aviation, and even civil society in Europe and, increasingly, the US.

So what’s next? Experts say supply chain monitoring must go nuclear-strength, and CFIUS should be checking every cap table with a microscope. Intellectual property needs Fort Knox treatment. And with China plowing into AI supremacy, don’t be surprised if the cyber siege goes quantum within a year.

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