Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves

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This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. "Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves" is your essential podcast for staying informed on the latest critical Chinese cyber activities targeting the United States. Updated regularly, this podcast delivers in-depth analysis of new attack patterns, compromised systems, and emergency alerts from CISA and the FBI. Stay ahead of active threats with expert insights into required defensive actions. Featuring a detailed timeline of events and potential escalation scenarios, "Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves" is your go-to resource for understanding and responding to complex cyber challenges in real-time. Stay secure; stay updated. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs

  1. 12 HR AGO

    Salt Typhoon Sizzles: China's Cyber Chaos Sweeps Globe, Feds Scramble

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. Power up your VPNs and patch those gateways, listeners—it’s Ting here, serving up an expert byte of news hotter than a freshly minted zero-day! If you thought China’s cyber playbook was getting stale, think again. Over just the past few days—right up to today, August 31, 2025—we’ve seen Red Alert-level activity lighting up dashboards from Washington to Amsterdam. Grab your caffeinated beverage and let’s decrypt what’s happening. First off, Salt Typhoon—you know, the Chinese cyber group CISA, FBI, and NSA have been yelling about? Turns out their campaign against US telecoms, revealed last year, was the tip of the silicon iceberg. FBI Assistant Director Brett Leatherman just confirmed that breaches are global and way deeper than anyone guessed, spanning eighty countries and targeting critical sectors from transportation to military infrastructure. These attacks trace back to companies like Sichuan Juxinhe and Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong, apparently moonlighting for the People’s Liberation Army. So if you’re routing sensitive calls, assume your metadata’s already sipping Oolong tea in Chengdu. The timeline’s been bonkers: on August 27, NSA and global partners dropped a joint alert spelling out targeted vulnerabilities, and CISA has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog twice since then. What’s on the list? Biggies like CVE-2024-21887 in Ivanti Connect Secure, the now-infamous Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-3400, not to mention Cisco IOS XE RCE classics and yes, Citrix NetScaler’s own CVE-2025-7775, actively exploited on more than 28,000 instances. Shadowserver Foundation reported mass scanning activity, and CISA issued emergency patch guidance—if you haven’t deployed, you’re inviting a Salt Typhoon housewarming party. Meanwhile, threat actors linked to UNC6395 snagged OAuth tokens in a Salesloft breach, opening backdoors to Drift AI chat platforms. Mandiant and Google flagged this as a coordinated campaign, likely sponsored by those same state-backed groups. On the consumer end, WhatsApp scrambled to patch CVE-2025-55177—a zero-click spyware bug targeting iOS and macOS. No more innocent group chats from Guangzhou to San Fran. Let’s talk escalation. CISA and FBI say we are moving into more destructive territory. What starts as espionage—snagging telecom metadata, hijacking VPNs—can shift fast to sabotage. Analysts like Ciaran Martin warn these capabilities let China track comms and even disrupt infrastructure at scale. Imagine Salt Typhoon staging ransomware on backbone routers or AI-assisted identity theft surging from data siphoned in last week’s breach. So what do you do, fellow tech warriors? Patch immediately—Ivanti, Citrix, and Palo Alto gear first. Segment your networks, check logs for SSH on weird ports, and hunt for shady GRE tunnels. Treat any OAuth tokens as compromised if your platforms integrate with Salesloft or Drift. Run tabletop exercises, tighten privilege controls, and keep threat intel feeds flowing. If you’re waiting for the Feds to knock, don’t—proactive defense is the only survival mode. China isn’t slowing down, their vendor lists keep growing, and the next salt-storm could fry critical services. That’s the latest byte—thanks for tuning in. Smash that subscribe button if you dig real-time cyber alerts with Ting! 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

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  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    Salt Typhoon Snoops, Nevada Nuked, and China's Cyber Spree Gone Wild

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here—and wow, what a week to cover China’s cyber shenanigans. You want fresh drama? You want Salt Typhoon? Pull up your dashboards, because it’s Red Alert all around and I’m about to decode, demystify, and occasionally roast some Chinese hacking maneuvers for you. Let’s start with Salt Typhoon, China’s own league of cyberspies. The FBI confirmed this week that Salt Typhoon scored years-long access to American telecoms, drilling into networks like Verizon and AT&T, but also reaching hundreds of administration officials. I mean, they didn’t just snoop—they geolocated users, monitored traffic, and sometimes even recorded actual phone calls. I’d call it creepy, but honestly, in cyber terms it’s pure James Bond stuff. Three companies—Sichuan Juxinhe, Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong, and Sichuan Zhixin Ruijie—are linked directly to these escapades. Supposedly they’re champions of China’s security services and military, but this week’s revelations suggest the CCP’s reliance on private companies for hacking is more “risky partnership” than “master plan”. Skip forward to August 24: Nevada is the unlucky star in America’s latest cyber reality show. A pretty bold attack forced state offices closed, knocked websites and phone lines offline, and sent Governor Joe Lombardo’s tech team into DEFCON mode. CISA—the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—jumped in with threat hunting teams, and the FBI partnered up, all to restore critical services and hunt for malware. No group’s claimed responsibility, but past attacks like this point to ransomware as the likely culprit. Personal data, for now, is reportedly safe, but state employees had a two-day paid cyber vacation, with slow reopening as systems crawled back. CISA’s Madhu Gottumukkala sets the tone: “We’re embedded, collaborating, restoring services—and we’re not leaving till Nevada’s safe.” This is your U.S. cyber defense playbook in action. Want new attack patterns? Salt Typhoon’s hackers are hotwiring routers—backbone, provider edge, customer edge routers—modifying firmware for persistent access. They pivot between networks using compromised devices and trusted connections, proving that the game’s not just about stealing secrets, but staying embedded long-term. Google researchers found attacks leveraging adversary-in-the-middle techniques, signed malware, and AI-powered phishing, targeting juicy targets like AWS and Snowflake keys. In another twist, zero-day flaws in Citrix and Git forced CISA into emergency patch deadline mode, pushing federal agencies to lock down fast. Now, let’s look at escalation. The NSA, CISA, and FBI issued a global joint advisory on Wednesday: China-backed actors aren’t stopping at America. International partnerships—from Germany to Japan—are joining the hunt, listing indicators of compromise, sharing technical details, and calling on critical infrastructure defenders to mount active threat hunting. The worry is that persistent access will allow China to track global movement and communications with near impunity. If defensive measures lag, infrastructure could be compromised at scale—think transportation shut-downs, telecom blackouts, even targeted military disruption. So what should defenders do right now? Update router and device firmware, review CISA’s advisory for IOC lists and mitigation tactics, patch exploited vulnerabilities—especially those flagged this week—and coordinate across federal and local teams. Threat hunting can’t be a one-day affair; it needs persistent, real-time ops. International collaboration is now part of daily cyber hygiene. Listeners, thanks for tuning in to Ting’s take on China’s daily cyber moves. Subscribe for more fun, fearless, expert cyber talk. 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

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  3. 4 DAYS AGO

    Silk & Salt Typhoons: Beijing's Cyber Storms Wreak Global Havoc - US Routers Rocked in 72-Hour Hacking Spree!

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. It’s Ting here, and let’s not sugarcoat it – the last 72 hours in US-China cyberland have been an absolute roller coaster. If you thought summer was hot, it’s nothing compared to the swarm of Chinese state-sponsored bits ricocheting through American infrastructure this week. Grab a drink, listeners – you’re going to want your hands free for facepalming. The timeline kicked off Monday night, August 25th, when Salt Typhoon, China’s cyber marauders with a penchant for router infiltration, popped up on CISA’s radar yet again. Just after midnight, backbone routers at three different US telecommunications providers experienced unexplained surges in admin-level credential sniffing, and within hours, network traffic logs revealed targeted decryption efforts. By dawn, the FBI and NSA were comparing notes with global partners: the breach patterns matched years of Beijing-backed activity, with stolen data showing telltale signs of staging for further exfiltration, not just domestically but across five continents, 80-plus countries, and well over 200 US organizations. Talk about not playing favorites – Brett Leatherman from the FBI called it “indiscriminate targeting… in ways that go well outside the norms of cyberspace operations.” That’s cyber-diplospeak for “they went everywhere, touched everything.” As the clock ticked into Tuesday, August 26th, CISA escalated its emergency alert, urging agencies to patch an arbitrary file write vulnerability in Git rapid-fire style, after seeing exploit attempts spike on federal networks. At least three sensitive systems required emergency downtime, with activity traced to actors tooling with infrastructure from Sichuan Juxinhe in China and their industry comrades at Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong. These companies, now infamous, allegedly funnel their hacks as a service for the People’s Liberation Army’s intelligence wing. If your routers had a pulse, they were a target – with entire edge network stacks getting “modified” to maintain long-term access. That means they’re not just getting in; they’re making themselves a new home. Fast forward to this morning, August 27th, and the hits kept coming. Silk Typhoon, probably bored without any US government emails to peek into for breakfast, pivoted to hijacking web traffic intended for US-based diplomats by redirecting through malicious domains. The twist: this latest campaign leveraged zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities, according to CrowdStrike, bypassing standard endpoint detection to install fresh malware strains. The focus? Communications, location tracking, and – always the crowd-pleaser – credential theft. So what should defenders do besides panic-scroll? CISA and FBI say patch those edge routers and Git servers if you haven’t already, turn on centralized logging like your network depends on it (because it does), and start threat hunting for signs of persistence – especially for signatures linked to Salt Typhoon, Silk Typhoon, RedMike, and operator PANDA. With adversarial actors burrowed deep into hardware, every lag or odd spike is a red flag. Potential escalation scenario? Don’t rule out disruptive attacks on US transport systems or even public safety networks if access persists into September. With US allies – from Five Eyes to Germany and Japan – shouting from the rooftops, it’s clear nobody’s safe. And if Beijing decides to up the ante, we could see supply chains and financial networks next in line. That’s the cyber drama as of August 27th, 2025. I’m Ting. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Subscribe for more cyber scoops, and remember: only you can prevent router-flavored espionage. 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

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  4. 6 DAYS AGO

    China's Cyber Ninjas Strike Again: Droppers, Phishing, and Ransom, Oh My!

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your favorite cyber sleuth with wit sharper than a zero-day exploit—reporting live on August 25, 2025, because Red Alert: China’s Daily Cyber Moves is not code for a slow news day! The dragon’s not just awake, it’s breakdancing through US networks with a fresh set of tactics, so let’s slice right into what matters. Starting last night, digital diplomats in the US got zapped by a campaign Google’s elite Threat Intelligence gurus linked to UNC6384. No, not just another alphabet soup hacker crew—these are your People’s Republic of China cyber contractors or quite possibly government hit squad. Patrick Whitsell at Google says they combined social engineering artistry with malware dressed as legit software updates, sneaking tools like STATICPLUGIN and, for the old-school fans, SOGU.SEC right into memory so antivirus felt like an innocent bystander. The operation: hijack Wi-Fi networks, pop open fake Adobe plug-ins, and snag sensitive documents straight from important laptops. Google’s not guessing. Last week, two dozen victims got burned—and yes, diplomats count. Who needs black ops when you have captive portals and in-memory droppers?[Google Threat Intelligence Group] But the chess game isn’t happening on one board. The FBI and CISA sent out urgent overnight alerts after seeing an uptick in China-tied Interlock ransomware attacks. If you thought phishing was so 2022, think again: now attackers abuse Microsoft 365’s Direct Send feature so their emails look like they’re coming from inside your building—imagine getting a voicemail from your own IT department, only to have your login credentials snatched and your files locked. The trick uses internal-looking Microsoft endpoints and clever QR code PDFs. Microsoft finally pushed a new tenant control to block this stunt, but as of this morning, thousands of Exchange servers are still vulnerable, and the crooks are ramping up with AI chatbots that intensify harassment. If your org hasn’t rehearsed its incident response, you’re pretty much a sitting duck.[Black Arrow Cyber Alert] Let’s put timestamps on the mayhem: August 22, Microsoft shut off proof-of-concept exploit sharing with Chinese firms after SharePoint zero-day leaks became a buffet for advanced persistent threat groups. The backlash echoes—Beijing’s own officials now finger the US for exploiting old Microsoft flaws to steal defense secrets, as reported today from Beijing’s cybersecurity mouthpiece.[Security Affairs] Potential escalation? If UNC6384 nails more credential theft, get ready for spear-phishing campaigns, business email compromise, and possibly lateral moves into critical infrastructure. Ransomware gangs—ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider—are collaborating and hitting financial sectors, raising stakes across the board. We’re not talking isolated incidents; this week saw a Chinese developer convicted in Ohio for sabotaging his employer’s systems with custom kill-switch malware, proving the insider threat is alive and well, and not always officially state-linked. So, what should you do? Activate Enhanced Safe Browsing across Chrome and Workspace, double-down on multi-factor authentication, push emergency patch updates—especially if you’re still holding out on last month’s SharePoint fix—and restrict suspicious traffic from unknown domains. Internally, practice your incident response. The “attack yourself first” advice from pros isn’t a joke—offensive security beats playing catch-up every single time. That’s it from Ting—your day’s cyber rollercoaster, direct from the battlefield, all flavor, no filler. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a breach. 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

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  5. 24 AUG

    China's Cyber Espionage Blitz: Ransomware, AI Phishing, & Trust Collapse in Tech Alliances

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. Red Alert, friends—Ting here, your go-to tech whisperer for untangling today’s cyber mayhem. If you tuned in for a quiet Sunday, surprise: China’s hackers didn’t take the weekend off, and neither did emergency teams at CISA or the FBI. Let’s zoom right to today’s critical moves, because wow, what a 48-hour timeline. First headline—ransomware ruled the morning feeds. Kidney dialysis giant DaVita confirmed on Saturday that Silk Typhoon, a China-linked advanced persistent threat group, pulled off a devastating attack, snatching data of 2.7 million Americans. This isn’t your average ransomware story—this steals medical histories, insurance info, even kidney test results. CISA responded by blasting out an emergency directive to all healthcare networks to patch exposed endpoints and verify off-site backups, but the window of compromise is hot, and Silk Typhoon hasn’t posted ransom notes. The concern? They’re building patient dossiers, maybe for future blackmail or high-level spear-phishing. Around lunchtime, Microsoft dropped a bombshell: it will no longer share exploit code with its Chinese partner firms. Why? Proof-of-concept code for the SharePoint zero-day, intended only for research, ended up fueling July’s mass exploit spree across U.S. energy and municipal systems. Microsoft’s move is strategic whiplash, a direct attempt to choke the leak at the source, but it also signals a trust collapse between U.S. and Chinese infosec alliances. Let’s talk new attack patterns—since Friday, CISA tracked a spike in supply-chain breaches targeting second-tier government contractors. The threat isn’t just in the code; attackers are using AI-generated emails that mimic official Department of Energy communications. Fortune magazine just highlighted how AI is being weaponized in financial aid scams, but today, that same trickery is being abused against U.S. critical infrastructure contracts. Active threats? Alert status is blinking red. FBI is warning of password spraying attacks against Outpost24 and SonicWall VPN gateways, tools crucial for remote energy plant access. They’ve seen coordinated login attempts from server clusters linked to provinces in Shandong and Guangdong. The emergency action: enforce multifactor authentication, push updates now, and isolate any system showing unfamiliar IP logins from Chinese subnet ranges. Let’s play out the escalation: If today’s attacks are prepping for a larger disruption—think massive supply chain compromise or widespread access to emergency response networks—the U.S. is standing by for possible upgrades to Defcon cyber alert protocols and even active Mark and Reprisal crypto seizures. The new Marque Act empowers the U.S. to snatch digital assets from identified attackers. That is not just policy, that’s cyber counter-piracy at work. Bottom line, defenders need to treat every alert as if it’s a precursor to a full-blown campaign, because the patterns—staged data theft, AI phishing, exploit leaks—are stacking up, fast. If you’re on blue team duty, double-check your patch cadence and log everything. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Hit subscribe for more real-time cyber dispatches from yours truly. 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

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  6. 22 AUG

    Murky Panda Mayhem: Chinas Cyber Rampage Leaves US Scrambling for Patches and Prayers

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. I’m Ting, and the cyber threat level is neon red with a splash of murky panda prints. Let’s get straight to what you missed these dizzying past few days in US-China cyber jousting. Grab your password managers, listeners, because this isn’t just theory—it’s the reality behind today’s Red Alert. Let’s start with the latest headline-grabber: Murky Panda, also called Silk Typhoon (and for those keeping track, formerly Hafnium). This crew is why cloud administrators haven’t slept much lately. CrowdStrike reports a 136% surge in cloud intrusions, much of it thanks to these China-nexus operatives who love to break into government, tech, and academic systems. The favorite move? Weaponizing n-day and zero-day vulnerabilities. They recently hammered Citrix NetScaler (see that CVE-2023-3519) and exploited the just-patched Commvault bug (CVE-2025-3928), slicing straight into backup systems that are supposed to be everyone’s safety net. By Monday evening, August 18, Silk Typhoon upped their game. They exploited trusted relationships within cloud ecosystems, using compromised Entra ID service principals and sneaking through delegated permissions, turning your single sign-on paradise into a hacker’s carnival. In one infamous case, they stole an application registration secret from a SaaS provider, letting them slip into customer environments with far too much ease. Down the timeline, Tuesday saw the group leveraging small office and home office (SOHO) routers in the US as jump points. This made it look like the attacks were originating locally—classic disinformation play. By Wednesday, CISA was lighting up inboxes with emergency alerts. A major industry SaaS provider suffered a breach, and downstream customers scrambled to audit every Entra ID integration and multi-cloud handoff. Even the FBI weighed in urging a full-court press on patching Citrix and Commvault instances, as well as anything remotely public-facing or connected to supply chain vendors. What’s the risk if these activities escalate? As DCSA Director David Cattler pointed out at the recent National Insider Threat Awareness Month conference, China isn’t just playing at cyber: they’re waging strategic espionage as fast as our sunbaked policies can’t adapt. We’ve already seen the Volt Typhoon campaign hammer US infrastructure, and the December Treasury Department hack, where Chinese actors walked off with thousands of files. So here’s what you need to do, and do it now: Patrol your cloud configurations. If you’re a systems administrator, you must patch Citrix and Commvault, and enable multi-factor authentication on every sensitive identity. Review delegation relationships—don’t assume the trusted SaaS vendor didn’t get popped over the weekend. Keep regular, offline backups and be alert to phishing and credential-stuffing blitzes. Don’t forget about those aging routers—just because they’re ugly doesn’t mean Murky Panda won’t put them to work. Listeners, thanks for tuning into my whirlwind update of China’s latest cyber chess moves against US targets. Patch fast, question trust, and keep those coffee cups full—because the alerts are just getting started. Please subscribe to stay ahead of the breach. 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

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  7. 20 AUG

    Volt Typhoon Strikes Again: Chinas Cyber Commandos Exploit Cisco Zero-Day, Wreak Havoc on US Infrastructure

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. I’m Ting, your favorite cyber-wizard with an extra scoop of China expertise, and I promise you this: buckle up, because today's cyber news is hotter than a Szechuan hotpot at DEF CON. Right off, here’s the juice—early this morning, CISA pumped out a nationwide emergency alert to all federal agencies, warning of active Chinese state-backed offensives hammering U.S. energy and transportation infrastructure. The name pinging everywhere? Volt Typhoon. Sound familiar? It should, because these folks have practically claimed squatters’ rights in American critical systems since 2024, but things just escalated. The latest CISA advisory warns that Volt Typhoon is now exploiting a newly discovered RADIUS code execution flaw in Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center, CVE-2025-20265, which, get this, is a perfect 10 on the severity scale. According to Cisco and researchers at Western Illinois University, this means unauthenticated attackers can just walk in and make your firewall do whatever they want—a cyber gatecrasher's dream. Timeline check: just after 3 a.m. Eastern, monitoring at multiple utilities flagged mystery RADIUS logins from Chinese source IPs. By 5 a.m., network traffic was rerouting through attacker-controlled GRE tunnels, letting Volt Typhoon siphon off configuration data and NetFlow to exfil points overseas. Simultaneously, in the pre-dawn Dallas heat, at least one rail operations center went into fire drill mode as ICS protocols tripped. The techs at CISA were pulling overtime by sunrise, issuing emergency directives to kill Smart Install features on Cisco network gear—yup, the same path exploited by Salt Typhoon, another China-aligned actor, late last year. A virtual relay race of intrusion: one flaw, multiple adversaries, everyone sprinting for access. You want attack patterns? Here’s what’s hot: hands-on, living-off-the-land, no flashy malware—these teams are using compromised remote admin tools, custom open-source mods, and NetFlow exfil to look as mundane as your IT guy changing the toner. They’re even embedding instructions in fake AI CAPTCHAs; Guardio Labs calls it the PromptFix exploit—a generative AI-era spin on old-school clickjacking, only now with machine learning gullibility thrown in. Let’s get tactical. CISA’s emergency playbook says: patch every Cisco system immediately, kill Smart Install if you’re running anything older than lunch, review all remote admin access, and, if you run industrial control or OT, hunt for odd GRE tunnels and surprise RADIUS logins. The FBI and CISA are screaming: “assume breach until proven otherwise.” If you see anything off, escalate, don’t hesitate. What’s next if this escalates? If Volt Typhoon pivots from espionage to disruption, expect staged outages or even ransomware masking data-wipe attacks. Emergency comms, transport, and energy could feel it first—think Colonial Pipeline, but with more polish and deeper persistence. The White House isn’t blinking: National Security Memorandum mandates real-time sector threat sharing, but everyone—private or public—should treat mitigation as DEFCON 2. And don’t think this will stay just a “China vs. US” thing. Collateral targets: Taiwan already reported a surge of manipulations across web hosts yesterday by APTs tracing back to mainland China. So, listeners, reality check—with China’s offensive toolkit multiplying by the day and AI now in the mix, cyber defense absolutely has to be everyone’s game, not just Uncle Sam’s. Thanks for tuning in. Don’t forget to subscribe for more jolt-to-the-system intel. 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

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  8. 19 AUG

    China's Ghost-tapping Spree: Is Your Bank Card Beijing's Latest Loot?

    This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. Listeners, Ting here, tuning you in to the daily rhythm of Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves. Let’s jolt into the action—the digital chessboard is lit up, and the pieces, my friends, are moving fast. Just this weekend, Cisco Talos attributed an ongoing attack on Taiwan’s web infrastructure to a group they track as UAT-7237. These are Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat actors who rolled out customized open-source tools, but the kicker is that their real focus isn’t just Taiwan. This same toolkit is cropping up in backdoors and lateral movements across US-linked cloud hosting providers. If you’re running anything on N-able N-central, here’s your official facepalm: CISA and FBI rang in today with dual emergency alerts about new vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-8875 and CVE-2025-8876 now live in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog—over 800 servers still guzzling risk because patching is, apparently, wishful thinking. These flaws enable command execution and insecure deserialization, which basically means attackers have the equivalent of your IT department’s master keys. Meanwhile, the US CERT is raising its blood pressure over rising credential leaks. Recent weeks saw Chinese operatives boost their game with AI-enhanced phishing—think smart vishing calls that mimic your boss’s voice, and spear-phishing with super-personalized payloads. The result: scores of credentials harvested from executives, some used to pivot into more lucrative enterprise targets. Black Arrow Cyber reports that data breaches are spiking—Salesforce and Allianz Life both tanked under sophisticated data exfiltration campaigns, though ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider are suspected collaborators, possibly passing loot to state actors in Beijing for a fat fee. Today’s critical escalation? Chinese-speaking groups exploiting “Ghost-tapping.” That’s NFC relay fraud, where burner Androids preloaded with stolen US card data sweep retail and banking systems. Reports are streaming in from the Federal Reserve and unnamed Fortune 50 banks—almost 115 million cards at risk just this month, and the FBI is scrambling financial ISACs to coordinate a defense. And let’s not sleep on the strategic implications. Anne Neuberger just warned in Foreign Affairs that U.S. digital defenses across critical sectors—hospitals, utilities, the power grid—are nowhere near a cyber wartime footing. The implication? If China moves on Taiwan or escalates regional ambitions, the game board goes dead; the command-and-control centers we count on could go black. So, cue up the defensive playbook: patch known flaws—especially in N-central and Microsoft SharePoint—lock down supply chains, start rehearsing response plans, and enforce zero trust wherever you can. Oh, and if you think MFA is your magic shield, better layer up—AI is already learning how to punch through those codes. Potential for escalation? Very real. If we see even a whiff of offensive US cyber return-fire—targeting, say, energy grids in Jiangsu or military C3 networks in Guangzhou—expect tit-for-tat and possible spill-over to civilian tech and trade. Thanks for tuning in to Red Alert: China’s Daily Cyber Moves—don’t forget to subscribe, stay patched, and trust no one—even if it sounds just like your boss. 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

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This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast. "Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves" is your essential podcast for staying informed on the latest critical Chinese cyber activities targeting the United States. Updated regularly, this podcast delivers in-depth analysis of new attack patterns, compromised systems, and emergency alerts from CISA and the FBI. Stay ahead of active threats with expert insights into required defensive actions. Featuring a detailed timeline of events and potential escalation scenarios, "Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves" is your go-to resource for understanding and responding to complex cyber challenges in real-time. Stay secure; stay updated. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs