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This is your Silicon Siege: China's Tech Offensive podcast.
Silicon Siege—what a fortnight! Ting here, your friendly cyber sleuth, and let me tell you, the digital landscape between China and the US has been pure adrenaline these past weeks. There’s cyber smoke everywhere, but let’s sharpen our focus: Chinese cyber operations are on full “offensive mode”—and the American tech sector feels it like a biofeedback vest jacked to max.
First up: Salt Typhoon. That’s not a knockoff sushi roll—it’s Beijing’s most notorious state-sponsored cyber group, fully attributed by the FBI and the Australian Signals Directorate to China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army. In August, that decades-running campaign was outed as far broader than anyone guessed—even the Aussies didn’t know Salt Typhoon had combed through critical US telecoms, transport logistics, and government backbones. Think deep industrial espionage: stealthy access, dormant domains, and a patience that would make Buddha look impulsive. According to CircleID and the ASPI Strategist, these threat actors favor the long con, not smash-and-grab data heists. They nest, they wait, they exfiltrate sensitive IP—blueprints, proprietary code, trade secrets—for months or years at a time, sometimes slipping in by compromising global DNS infrastructure made to look like legitimate corporate landing pages.
So what’s fresh? This time, Salt Typhoon’s campaign included industrial-scale surveillance, which means they aren’t just copying code; they’re mapping US supply chains and communications. That means if you’re in silicon design, EV batteries, or AI chip fabrication, your emails and CAD files might now be sitting pretty for PLA analysts running data mining on the Belt and Road.
But hold onto your hats, because on September 11, security researchers (thank you, GFW Report and Cybernews) confirmed a 500GB+ nuclear-class data breach—the largest leak ever from inside the Great Firewall of China. The leak exposed how Chinese censorship tools are retrofitted for supply-chain compromise and surveillance export. The tech isn’t just for suppressing memes about Winnie the Pooh—it’s also embedded into firewalls sold to Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and—wait for it—potentially into global telecom equipment, raising alarms over hidden backdoors. Geedge Networks, run by Fang Binxing—the “Father of the Great Firewall”—turns out to be the hardware and software muscle behind these operations.
This is the stuff that keeps CISOs awake at 3 a.m. Industry experts like InterSecLab are saying it’s proof Chinese tech can monitor, geofence, and block internet users at a national scale, with “plug-and-play” surveillance features available for clients abroad. The new model is cyber coercion as a service, sold by China Inc., with direct implications for both IP theft and physical supply chain integrity.
And if you thought this was only code-level skullduggery, AI is the new rocket fuel. North Korean and Chinese hackers are leveraging generative AI to craft fake CEOs, bogus résumés, and spearphishing content with a twist of Mandarin wit, slipping past even diligent HR filters. This trend, flagged by AOL and LNGFRM, ramps up the risk of “AI-augmented” insider threats where bad actors pose as your own people.
So where does it land us? Cyber campaigns function now as strategic tools for both pressure and threshold-testing. Industry analysts warn that if left unanswered, this normalization of digital harassment is heading us straight into a full-scale digital confrontation.
Future risk? As global supply chains digitize and AI chips become the world’s next oil, expect Beijing’s industrial cyber offensive to only ramp up. Your best bet? Harden supply chain security, watch those DNS logs, run a red team exercise, and get friendly with your cyber insurance agent. Because in this Sino-American cyber chess match, checkmate isn’t hypothetical—it’s probable.
That’s a warp on Silicon Siege: China’s Tech Offensive, September 2025 edition. Thanks for tuning in! Don’t forget to subscribe for the next pulse of cyber intrigue. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot 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
Silicon Siege—what a fortnight! Ting here, your friendly cyber sleuth, and let me tell you, the digital landscape between China and the US has been pure adrenaline these past weeks. There’s cyber smoke everywhere, but let’s sharpen our focus: Chinese cyber operations are on full “offensive mode”—and the American tech sector feels it like a biofeedback vest jacked to max.
First up: Salt Typhoon. That’s not a knockoff sushi roll—it’s Beijing’s most notorious state-sponsored cyber group, fully attributed by the FBI and the Australian Signals Directorate to China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army. In August, that decades-running campaign was outed as far broader than anyone guessed—even the Aussies didn’t know Salt Typhoon had combed through critical US telecoms, transport logistics, and government backbones. Think deep industrial espionage: stealthy access, dormant domains, and a patience that would make Buddha look impulsive. According to CircleID and the ASPI Strategist, these threat actors favor the long con, not smash-and-grab data heists. They nest, they wait, they exfiltrate sensitive IP—blueprints, proprietary code, trade secrets—for months or years at a time, sometimes slipping in by compromising global DNS infrastructure made to look like legitimate corporate landing pages.
So what’s fresh? This time, Salt Typhoon’s campaign included industrial-scale surveillance, which means they aren’t just copying code; they’re mapping US supply chains and communications. That means if you’re in silicon design, EV batteries, or AI chip fabrication, your emails and CAD files might now be sitting pretty for PLA analysts running data mining on the Belt and Road.
But hold onto your hats, because on September 11, security researchers (thank you, GFW Report and Cybernews) confirmed a 500GB+ nuclear-class data breach—the largest leak ever from inside the Great Firewall of China. The leak exposed how Chinese censorship tools are retrofitted for supply-chain compromise and surveillance export. The tech isn’t just for suppressing memes about Winnie the Pooh—it’s also embedded into firewalls sold to Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and—wait for it—potentially into global telecom equipment, raising alarms over hidden backdoors. Geedge Networks, run by Fang Binxing—the “Father of the Great Firewall”—turns out to be the hardware and software muscle behind these operations.
This is the stuff that keeps CISOs awake at 3 a.m. Industry experts like InterSecLab are saying it’s proof Chinese tech can monitor, geofence, and block internet users at a national scale, with “plug-and-play” surveillance features available for clients abroad. The new model is cyber coercion as a service, sold by China Inc., with direct implications for both IP theft and physical supply chain integrity.
And if you thought this was only code-level skullduggery, AI is the new rocket fuel. North Korean and Chinese hackers are leveraging generative AI to craft fake CEOs, bogus résumés, and spearphishing content with a twist of Mandarin wit, slipping past even diligent HR filters. This trend, flagged by AOL and LNGFRM, ramps up the risk of “AI-augmented” insider threats where bad actors pose as your own people.
So where does it land us? Cyber campaigns function now as strategic tools for both pressure and threshold-testing. Industry analysts warn that if left unanswered, this normalization of digital harassment is heading us straight into a full-scale digital confrontation.
Future risk? As global supply chains digitize and AI chips become the world’s next oil, expect Beijing’s industrial cyber offensive to only ramp up. Your best bet? Harden supply chain security, watch those DNS logs, run a red team exercise, and get friendly with your cyber insurance agent. Because in this Sino-American cyber chess match, checkmate isn’t hypothetical—it’s probable.
That’s a warp on Silicon Siege: China’s Tech Offensive, September 2025 edition. Thanks for tuning in! Don’t forget to subscribe for the next pulse of cyber intrigue. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot 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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Silicon Siege—what a fortnight! Ting here, your friendly cyber sleuth, and let me tell you, the digital landscape between China and the US has been pure adrenaline these past weeks. There’s cyber smoke everywhere, but let’s sharpen our focus: Chinese cyber operations are on full “offensive mode”—and the American tech sector feels it like a biofeedback vest jacked to max.
First up: Salt Typhoon. That’s not a knockoff sushi roll—it’s Beijing’s most notorious state-sponsored cyber group, fully attributed by the FBI and the Australian Signals Directorate to China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army. In August, that decades-running campaign was outed as far broader than anyone guessed—even the Aussies didn’t know Salt Typhoon had combed through critical US telecoms, transport logistics, and government backbones. Think deep industrial espionage: stealthy access, dormant domains, and a patience that would make Buddha look impulsive. According to CircleID and the ASPI Strategist, these threat actors favor the long con, not smash-and-grab data heists. They nest, they wait, they exfiltrate sensitive IP—blueprints, proprietary code, trade secrets—for months or years at a time, sometimes slipping in by compromising global DNS infrastructure made to look like legitimate corporate landing pages.
So what’s fresh? This time, Salt Typhoon’s campaign included industrial-scale surveillance, which means they aren’t just copying code; they’re mapping US supply chains and communications. That means if you’re in silicon design, EV batteries, or AI chip fabrication, your emails and CAD files might now be sitting pretty for PLA analysts running data mining on the Belt and Road.
But hold onto your hats, because on September 11, security researchers (thank you, GFW Report and Cybernews) confirmed a 500GB+ nuclear-class data breach—the largest leak ever from inside the Great Firewall of China. The leak exposed how Chinese censorship tools are retrofitted for supply-chain compromise and surveillance export. The tech isn’t just for suppressing memes about Winnie the Pooh—it’s also embedded into firewalls sold to Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and—wait for it—potentially into global telecom equipment, raising alarms over hidden backdoors. Geedge Networks, run by Fang Binxing—the “Father of the Great Firewall”—turns out to be the hardware and software muscle behind these operations.
This is the stuff that keeps CISOs awake at 3 a.m. Industry experts like InterSecLab are saying it’s proof Chinese tech can monitor, geofence, and block internet users at a national scale, with “plug-and-play” surveillance features available for clients abroad. The new model is cyber coercion as a service, sold by China Inc., with direct implications for both IP theft and physical supply chain integrity.
And if you thought this was only code-level skullduggery, AI is the new rocket fuel. North Korean and Chinese hackers are leveraging generative AI to craft fake CEOs, bogus résumés, and spearphishing content with a twist of Mandarin wit, slipping past even diligent HR filters. This trend, flagged by AOL and LNGFRM, ramps up the risk of “AI-augmented” insider threats where bad actors pose as your own people.
So where does it land us? Cyber campaigns function now as strategic tools for both pressure and threshold-testing. Industry analysts warn that if left unanswered, this normalization of digital harassment is heading us straight into a full-scale digital confrontation.
Future risk? As global supply chains digitize and AI chips become the world’s next oil, expect Beijing’s industrial cyber offensive to only ramp up. Your best bet? Harden supply chain security, watch those DNS logs, run a red team exercise, and get friendly with your cyber insurance agent. Because in this Sino-American cyber chess match, checkmate isn’t hypothetical—it’s probable.
That’s a warp on Silicon Siege: China’s Tech Offensive, September 2025 edition. Thanks for tuning in! Don’t forget to subscribe for the next pulse of cyber intrigue. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot 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
Silicon Siege—what a fortnight! Ting here, your friendly cyber sleuth, and let me tell you, the digital landscape between China and the US has been pure adrenaline these past weeks. There’s cyber smoke everywhere, but let’s sharpen our focus: Chinese cyber operations are on full “offensive mode”—and the American tech sector feels it like a biofeedback vest jacked to max.
First up: Salt Typhoon. That’s not a knockoff sushi roll—it’s Beijing’s most notorious state-sponsored cyber group, fully attributed by the FBI and the Australian Signals Directorate to China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army. In August, that decades-running campaign was outed as far broader than anyone guessed—even the Aussies didn’t know Salt Typhoon had combed through critical US telecoms, transport logistics, and government backbones. Think deep industrial espionage: stealthy access, dormant domains, and a patience that would make Buddha look impulsive. According to CircleID and the ASPI Strategist, these threat actors favor the long con, not smash-and-grab data heists. They nest, they wait, they exfiltrate sensitive IP—blueprints, proprietary code, trade secrets—for months or years at a time, sometimes slipping in by compromising global DNS infrastructure made to look like legitimate corporate landing pages.
So what’s fresh? This time, Salt Typhoon’s campaign included industrial-scale surveillance, which means they aren’t just copying code; they’re mapping US supply chains and communications. That means if you’re in silicon design, EV batteries, or AI chip fabrication, your emails and CAD files might now be sitting pretty for PLA analysts running data mining on the Belt and Road.
But hold onto your hats, because on September 11, security researchers (thank you, GFW Report and Cybernews) confirmed a 500GB+ nuclear-class data breach—the largest leak ever from inside the Great Firewall of China. The leak exposed how Chinese censorship tools are retrofitted for supply-chain compromise and surveillance export. The tech isn’t just for suppressing memes about Winnie the Pooh—it’s also embedded into firewalls sold to Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and—wait for it—potentially into global telecom equipment, raising alarms over hidden backdoors. Geedge Networks, run by Fang Binxing—the “Father of the Great Firewall”—turns out to be the hardware and software muscle behind these operations.
This is the stuff that keeps CISOs awake at 3 a.m. Industry experts like InterSecLab are saying it’s proof Chinese tech can monitor, geofence, and block internet users at a national scale, with “plug-and-play” surveillance features available for clients abroad. The new model is cyber coercion as a service, sold by China Inc., with direct implications for both IP theft and physical supply chain integrity.
And if you thought this was only code-level skullduggery, AI is the new rocket fuel. North Korean and Chinese hackers are leveraging generative AI to craft fake CEOs, bogus résumés, and spearphishing content with a twist of Mandarin wit, slipping past even diligent HR filters. This trend, flagged by AOL and LNGFRM, ramps up the risk of “AI-augmented” insider threats where bad actors pose as your own people.
So where does it land us? Cyber campaigns function now as strategic tools for both pressure and threshold-testing. Industry analysts warn that if left unanswered, this normalization of digital harassment is heading us straight into a full-scale digital confrontation.
Future risk? As global supply chains digitize and AI chips become the world’s next oil, expect Beijing’s industrial cyber offensive to only ramp up. Your best bet? Harden supply chain security, watch those DNS logs, run a red team exercise, and get friendly with your cyber insurance agent. Because in this Sino-American cyber chess match, checkmate isn’t hypothetical—it’s probable.
That’s a warp on Silicon Siege: China’s Tech Offensive, September 2025 edition. Thanks for tuning in! Don’t forget to subscribe for the next pulse of cyber intrigue. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot 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