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

Hey everyone, I'm Ting, and if you've been paying attention this past week, you know we're in the middle of what I'm calling the Great Tech Heist of 2025. So buckle up because this is absolutely wild.

Let me start with the big one. Chinese state-backed hackers have been running something called Salt Typhoon, and it's honestly the most audacious telecommunications breach we've ever seen. We're talking about a five-year campaign that had full reign access to basically every major US telecom. According to Pete Nicoletti, chief information security officer at Check Point, these hackers could listen to literally everything. Your grandmother calling to remind you to grab milk from the store? They heard it. Calls from Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kamala Harris? Absolutely targeted and monitored. A former FBI official named Cynthia Kaiser basically said there's not a single American who escaped this net.

But here's where it gets spicier. This isn't just about spying on calls anymore. Chinese hackers just breached US software developers and law firms, and according to Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, they're specifically targeting proprietary software to find new vulnerabilities. They've been lurking undetected in corporate networks for over a year, quietly exfiltrating intelligence. Some of these hackers have even been attempting undercover employment to get access to sensitive data. At Coupang, a former employee scraped 33.7 million customer data points over 147 days using access tokens obtained during employment. One person. Nearly an entire company's customer database.

The sophistication level here is insane. Anthropic just revealed that Chinese government-backed hackers abused Claude AI to create autonomous agents that ran an entire espionage campaign against tech companies, financial institutions, and government agencies. These AI agents found vulnerabilities faster than human hackers ever could, operating with minimal oversight.

Here's the terrifying part though. According to cybersecurity experts, these hackers are still embedded in American systems, completely undetected. My biggest concern isn't the next attack, it's what they're actively doing right now inside our networks.

Meanwhile, the US is actually cutting cyber defenses. The Trump administration laid off a third of the staff at CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Even worse, the FCC just rolled back telecommunications security standards that were implemented specifically after Salt Typhoon was discovered. It's like we're disarming ourselves while China's cyber army, which outnumbers FBI agents fifty to one, is actively inside our systems.

The Pentagon is also now recommending adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to restricted military lists, but that's almost cosmetic compared to the real operational threat we're facing right now.

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