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This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense is your go-to podcast for the latest insights on China-linked cyber activities impacting US interests. Tune in daily to stay informed about newly discovered malware, sectors under attack, and emergency patches. Get expert analysis on official warnings and immediate defensive actions recommended by CISA and other authorities. Stay ahead of cyber threats with our timely updates and strategic insights to safeguard your tech infrastructure. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs

  1. 13 HR AGO

    China's Two-Year Secret: Dell Hack Exposed and BeyondTrust Under Siege - Your Friday Night Cyber Tea

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here with your Friday night China cyber briefing, and trust me, the last 24 hours have been absolutely wild. Let's jump right in. Dell RecoverPoint just got caught in the crosshairs of a suspected Chinese state-linked APT group that's been quietly exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability called CVE-2026-22769 since mid-2024. This isn't some run-of-the-mill bug. Mandiant and Google's Threat Intelligence Group detected this crew deploying nasty malware called BRICKSTORM and GRIMBOLT directly into VMware environments. For two years. Two years these attackers had persistent access, and most organizations had no idea. If you're running Dell RecoverPoint for virtual machines, this is a five-alarm fire. But wait, it gets worse. BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access products are getting absolutely hammered right now. We're talking CVE-2026-1731, a critical flaw with a CVSS score of 9.9 that basically gives attackers free rein to execute arbitrary commands. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 caught this vulnerability being actively exploited across financial services, legal firms, tech companies, hospitals, and retail operations spanning the US, France, Germany, Australia, and Canada. Attackers are deploying web shells, setting up command-and-control infrastructure, installing backdoors, and exfiltrating everything from configuration files to entire PostgreSQL databases. CISA wasted no time. Both vulnerabilities got added to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this week. That's your official warning that sophisticated threat actors, potentially including China-nexus groups like Silk Typhoon, are actively weaponizing these flaws. Here's what you need to do immediately. First, patch everything. Dell RecoverPoint, BeyondTrust, all of it. Don't wait for the perfect maintenance window. Second, hunt for indicators of compromise on your network. Check for unusual outbound connections, command-and-control traffic masquerading as legitimate activity, and any evidence of credential theft or lateral movement. Third, if you're running these products in critical infrastructure or financial systems, assume you've been targeted and conduct forensic analysis now. The broader picture here is that China-linked actors continue proving they're playing the long game. They're not smashing and grabbing. They're patient, methodical, and willing to sit inside your network for years collecting intelligence. That's the operational sophistication that keeps CISA up at night. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next critical update. This has been Quiet Please Production, for more check out quietplease 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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  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    Chinese Hackers Lurking in US Systems for 18 Months With a Perfect 10 Zero-Day You Never Saw Coming

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here with your China Hack Report for the past 24 hours. Buckle up because it's been absolutely wild out there. Let's dive straight into the nightmare fuel. Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant just dropped a bombshell about a zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have been quietly exploiting since mid-2024. We're talking about CVE-2026-22769, a perfect 10 out of 10 on the severity scale. This flaw involves hardcoded administrator credentials in Apache Tomcat that basically handed attackers the keys to the kingdom. The threat group UNC6201, which overlaps with the notorious Silk Typhoon crew, has been using this vulnerability to embed themselves into US networks for nearly eighteen months without anyone noticing. That's some serious stealth work. Here's where it gets spicy. These attackers didn't just grab access and bounce. They deployed multiple malware flavors including Brickstorm, Slaystyle webshells, and a brand new backdoor called Grimbolt that's written in C-sharp and compiled to native machine code to avoid detection. By September 2025, they'd already replaced the older Brickstorm binaries with Grimbolt, suggesting they're constantly evolving their toolkit. The attackers even created what researchers call Ghost NICs, basically invisible virtual network interfaces on VMware systems that let them pivot deeper into victim infrastructure without anyone seeing the traffic. But that's not all. Over at Dragos, their annual threat report just came out revealing that a group called Voltzite, highly correlated with the infamous Volt Typhoon operation, continues embedding malware inside American utilities for long-term persistence. We're talking about penetration into the actual control systems that manage industrial processes. Dragos observed this crew exfiltrating operational and sensor data from pipeline operations after compromising Sierra Wireless AirLink devices. They've got access deep enough to potentially manipulate control systems, accessing engineering workstations and stealing configuration files that show how to force operations to stop. Meanwhile, CISA and the NSA are scrambling to provide indicators of compromise and detection rules while Dell pushes emergency patches. Organizations need to immediately patch their RecoverPoint systems and scan for Ghost NICs and suspicious network activity. The scary part according to researchers is that many organizations likely don't even know they've been compromised yet. This is the kind of patient, persistent espionage that keeps security professionals up at night. These aren't smash and grab operations. These are long-term embedding campaigns designed to maintain access and enable future disruption. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Make sure you subscribe for tomorrow's update. 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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  3. 4 DAYS AGO

    Ting Spills the Tea: China's Cyber Ghosts Erase Tracks While CISA Runs on Fumes and Chrome Burns with Zero-Days

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks hitting US tech and defense. Buckle up, because the last 24 hours have been a stealthy storm from Beijing's shadows, and I'm slicing through it with fresh intel. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, as Singapore's Cyber Security Agency drops a bombshell attributing UNC3886 to China—the largest government hacking op since SolarWinds, per Breached Company's deep dive. These ghosts erased their tracks but hit US telecoms hard, echoing the Salt Typhoon crew that owned networks last year. No new malware named today, but Microsoft's zero-days are screaming exploitation by Salt Typhoon nation-states, including Chinese actors, turning everyday patches into emergency shields. Sectors? Defense suppliers and next-gen tech like drones are bleeding, as Google's Threat Intelligence Group calls China the top cyber threat by volume. Check Point's February 16 report flags ongoing RATs like Remcos and stealers such as Raccoon and Vidar in the wild, likely piggybacking Chinese ops. Telecoms remain a sore spot—remember Salt Typhoon pwning AT&T and Verizon? Now, CISA's at 38% capacity from the DHS shutdown starting February 14, per SecurityWeek, so they're yelling for immediate patches on Chrome's CVE-2026-2441 zero-day, fixed in version 145 today. BeyondTrust's CVE-2026-1731 is under active fire too—remote code execution nightmare. Official warnings? Ian Bremmer at Munich Security Conference yesterday nailed it: US-China AI space has zero trust, no governance, just escalation. Google's naming China outright while Palo Alto plays coy, as ASPI strategists roast—inaction erodes our edge. CISA echoes Huntress: MFA everywhere, least privilege, audit third-party tools like Net Monitor for Employees, now a ransomware springboard mimicking RATs. Defensive moves? Patch Chrome now, segment networks, monitor anomalous logins on VPNs and RDP. Huntress says watch PowerShell chains tweaking Defender. CISA's interim chief even leaked docs to ChatGPT—shadow AI alert! US might ease bans on Alibaba, Baidu, even TP-Link per Reuters whispers, maybe pre-Trump-Xi talks, but don't drop guards. China's fusing cyber with commerce, stealing IP for drones and semis—Taiwan's chip giants know from four APTs pounding them. We're in a cold war remix; stay vigilant, listeners. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for daily 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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  4. 5 DAYS AGO

    China's Notepad Nightmare: How Your Favorite Text Editor Became a Spy Tool Plus BeyondTrust Gets Wrecked

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks hitting US tech defenses. Picture this: it's been a wild 24 hours in the cyber trenches, and China's shadow ops are probing harder than ever. Just yesterday, Help Net Security dropped a bombshell—attackers, smelling like China-nexus crews from their past Treasury hits, are already exploiting CVE-2026-1731, that fresh critical RCE in BeyondTrust's Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access tools. BeyondTrust patched it quick after a researcher tipped them off, but internet-facing US instances? They're getting hammered for pre-auth code execution footholds. No zero-day this time like their 2024 Remote Support mess, but speed demons are chaining it to breach defense contractor networks and tech firms in Virginia and California. Flip to Schneier on Security's fresh Crypto-Gram—Chinese gov hackers just trojaned Notepad++ installs, version 8.9 and below, delivering malware straight to devs' machines. They call it a backdoor blitz targeting US software houses in Seattle and Austin, slurping code and creds. Update to 8.9.1 now, folks, or kiss your repos goodbye. And get this: two AI coding assistants, loved by 1.5 million devs including teams at Google and Lockheed Martin, got busted secretly piping every line of ingested code to Chinese servers. Schneier warns it's a data exfil goldmine for Beijing's intel machine—US tech secrets flowing east like cheap takeout. Sectors under fire? US defense tech tops the list, with BeyondTrust vulns hitting remote access for military vendors. Add in Singapore's telcos—M1, Singtel, StarHub, SIMBA—breached last year by UNC3886, that China-linked APT, per Singapore's CSA. They're deep in networks, espionage style, and ripples hit US allies' supply chains. No fresh malware named in the last day, but those Notepad++ payloads scream custom Chinese tooling, and Ivanti EPMM's CVE-2026-1281 "sleeper" webshells are waking up for follow-on attacks on US mobile management platforms. CISA's screaming emergency patches: slam BeyondTrust's fix, Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday for six zero-days including Notepad's RCE CVE-2026-20841, and Apple's dyld flaw CVE-2026-20700. Official warnings from Microsoft Hunter and Huntress flag unpatched SolarWinds Web Help Desk under mass attack—China crews love those for initial access. Defensive moves? Isolate internet-facing remotes, hunt webshells with behavioral scans per Shadowserver Foundation, enforce Windows Baseline Security Mode for app consent, and run OpenClaw Scanner to sniff rogue AI agents. Multi-factor your brains out, listeners—China's playing 4D chess while we're patching Tuesday. Stay vigilant, patch like your job depends on it—because it does. Thanks for tuning in, smash that subscribe button for daily 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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  5. 13 FEB

    China's Cyber Crews Go Full Sneak Mode: ORBs, Fake Jobs, and Why Your Router Is Crying

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and US tech defense. Buckle up, because the last 24 hours dropped some spicy China-linked bombshells hitting American interests hard—think defense contractors under siege and sneaky edge hacks that make your firewall blush. Straight out the gate, Google Threat Intelligence just lit up the wires with a report tagging China-nexus crews like UNC3236, aka Volt Typhoon, probing login portals of North American military outfits. These sly foxes used the ARCMAZE obfuscation framework to ghost their tracks while reconning US defense industrial base targets. And get this, UNC6508, another China crew, hijacked a REDCap software update back in late 2023 to plant INFINITERED malware on a US research institution—persistent remote access and credential sniping, all via legit dev tools. Fresh twist: they're deploying operational relay box networks, or ORBs, to mask ops against DIB heavies. Sectors? Aerospace, defense manufacturing—supply chain's the hot spot, with edge devices like routers as the weak link. Malware alert: APT5, or Mulberry Typhoon, is phishing ex-employees of big US aerospace giants with custom lures. No new zero-days named today, but CISA updated its BRICKSTORM advisory on Ivanti backdoors—China-linked? You bet, as they love those perimeter toys. Meanwhile, Lotus Blossom, that veteran China state-sponsored beast, exploited CVE-2025-15556, now in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FCEB agencies gotta patch by March 5 or eat dirt. Official warnings? CISA's yelling about four KEVs, including that SolarWinds bypass and Microsoft SQL injection, but China's shadow looms large per Rapid7. Leaked docs from NetAskari via Recorded Future reveal China's "Expedition Cloud" platform—AI-fueled sims hacking power grids, transport, even smarthomes in neighbor nations. No defenders allowed, just attack squads practicing on foreign crit-infra. Taiwan's sweating a digital siege rehearsal. Defensive moves, stat: CISA says federales patch BeyondTrust's CVE-2026-1731 RCE by Feb 15—it's live exploited via WebSocket tricks. Listeners, hunt ORBs in your logs, segment edge gear, enable MFA everywhere, and drill hiring scams—China's faking job offers to slip in. Run those Ivanti patches, scan for INFINITERED persistence, and watch Gemini AI abuse; Chinese APT31 and UNC795 were cloning it for vuln research till Google axed 'em. Whew, Beijing's playbook is multi-vector madness, but stay vigilant—you got this. Thanks for tuning in, smash that subscribe for daily 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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  6. 11 FEB

    China's Ransomware Glow-Up: Winter Shield Drama, SmarterMail Chaos and Why Your Edge Devices Are Crying

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks hitting US tech and defense. Buckle up, because the last 24 hours dropped some scorcher alerts on China-linked ops that have CISA and the FBI scrambling. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, dissecting the feeds as Operation Winter Shield ramps up— that's the FBI's nationwide push against blended threats where PRC nation-states puppet Chinese firms like Integrity Technology Group and others to broker access for hacks like Flack's Typhoon and Assault Typhoon, straight-up espionage goldmines into US networks. Fast-forward to today, ReliaQuest drops a bombshell on Storm-2603, a China-based crew pushing Warlock ransomware via SmarterMail flaws—CVE-2026-23760 for admin password resets and CVE-2026-24423 for more exploits. These bad boys let unauth attackers chain a password bypass with the app's Volume Mount feature to inject commands, escalating to full Windows control. They even hijack legit tools like Velociraptor for C2 and pull MSI payloads from Supabase—smooth pivot from old GitHub tricks. No full ransomware drop observed, but it screamed interrupted staging. Sectors? Email servers on the edge, prime for US biz lateral moves. Meanwhile, Google Threat Intelligence Group's fresh report flags China-nexus wolves like UNC3886 and UNC5221 hammering the defense industrial base—think aerospace contractors, supply chains, even edge devices and ORB networks for sneaky recon. Over two years, they've outpaced everyone in volume, blending with ransomware hits on manufacturing dual-use suppliers. FBI's Brett Leatherman warns of PRC's whole-of-society playbook, outsourcing to proxies while DPRK IT ghosts lurk in hospitals. CISA's yelling emergency patches: Upgrade SmarterMail to Build 9511+, slam those Microsoft zero-days like CVE-2026-21533 Remote Desktop priv-esc and shell bypasses CVE-2026-21510—six in KEV catalog now, all exploited wild. Isolate mail servers, firewall outbound to kill C2, enforce MFA everywhere. Leaked docs via Recorded Future reveal China's Expedition Cloud platform rehearsing strikes on South China Sea neighbors' critical infra—source code and all, prepping real-world pain. Defensive play, listeners: Patch now, hunt Velociraptor anomalies, segment edges, and monitor cloud misconfigs—TeamPCP's been feasting on AWS and Azure since late '25. China's not slowing; they're AI-boosting kill chains per Anthropic's Claude takedown. Thanks for tuning in, smash that subscribe for daily drops. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Stay vigilant! 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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  7. 9 FEB

    Ting Spills Tea: China's Cyber Squad Is Camping in US Power Grids and Nobody's Kicking Them Out Yet

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks shaking up US tech defenses. Picture this: it's been a wild 24 hours in the cyber trenches, and China's shadow warriors are flexing hard on American interests. Kicking off with the big one—Volt Typhoon, that sneaky China-linked APT crew unmasked back in 2023, is still burrowed deep in US critical infrastructure like communications, energy, transportation, and government networks. Fresh analysis from the International Institute for Strategic Studies dropped today, courtesy of John Bruce, their cyber power expert. He lays it out: these aren't just spies; they're pre-positioning for disruption if tensions boil over Taiwan. Why Guam? US naval ports and air bases there are prime targets for any Beijing blockade play. Networks with zilch intel value, but loaded with diagrams and OT manuals? That's sabotage prep, folks, thumbing noses at UN Norm 13(f) on not messing with critical public services. Not done yet—Microsoft's Defender team flagged multi-stage attacks exploiting exposed SolarWinds Web Help Desk servers for remote code execution, letting hackers pivot to high-value US assets. CISA just slapped CVE-2025-40551, a nasty 9.8 CVSS deserialization flaw, onto their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog today—patch now or regret later. No new malware namedrops in the last day, but Volt Typhoon's persistence screams living-off-the-land tactics, no fancy zero-days needed, as FBI's Operation Winter Shield podcasters John Riggi echoed, stressing basic controls over exotic exploits. Sectors hammered? US infrastructure's the bullseye, with ripple warnings for allies—think Norway's digital grids under Salt Typhoon recon, per their security report. CISA's pushing immediate defenses: segment networks, enforce zero-trust, hunt for anomalies in edge devices. Microsoft's urging scans for SolarWinds footprints, while IISS calls out pre-crisis embedding. Pro tip from me: air-gap OT where you can, rotate creds like your life's on it—because it might be. Wrapping the chaos, leaked docs show China's secret platform rehearsing strikes on neighbors' infra, priming for US escalations. No service disruptions yet, but the intent's disruptive AF. Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for daily drops to stay ahead of the dragon. 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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  8. 8 FEB

    DKnife Drama: China's Router Heist Spills Your Secrets While You Sip Bubble Tea

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth diving into the hottest China-linked hacks slamming US tech and defense interests over the last 24 hours as of February 8, 2026. Buckle up—it's been a sneaky storm from the Dragon's lair. Picture this: I'm sipping my bubble tea, scanning feeds, when bam—Cyberrecaps drops the bomb on DKnife, that slick Linux-based toolkit China's nexus threat actors have been wielding since 2019. These bad boys hijack routers and edge devices for adversary-in-the-middle attacks, sniffing traffic, shoving malware like ShadowPad straight into your downloads, and even DNS-jacking WeChat updates. Primarily hitting Chinese-speaking users, but guess what? US firms with global footprints are prime for spillover espionage. Defense rec? CISA's BOD 26-02 screams inventory your EOL edge gear now—routers, firewalls, VPNs—and ditch 'em in 12 months, 'cause China and Russia crews are feasting on unpatched relics. Fast-forward, WIU Cybersecurity Center echoes DKnife's router rampage from February 6, targeting edge devices for traffic hijacks and malware drops. No new malware namedrops in the last day, but it's evolving—deep packet inspection on CentOS boxes, IPs like 43.132.205.118 lighting up scans. Sectors? Think telecom, government infra bleeding into US defense supply chains; Palo Alto's Unit 42 just flagged TGR-STA-1030, an Asian state-backed group (heavy China vibes) breaching 70 gov and critical orgs across 37 countries. That's US allies' data at risk, folks—immediate action: hunt for rogue implants with EDR tools. No fresh emergency patches screamed in the last 24, but CISA's still thumping the table on unsupported devices after their February 6 directive. Official warnings? BOD 26-02 mandates federal agencies catalog junk hardware in three months. Defensive moves: Patch like your life's on the line, enforce MFA on all remote access—remember Poland's energy fiasco via default FortiGate creds? Don't be that guy. Wrapping the frenzy, Lotus Blossom's Notepad++ supply chain hit lingers—Rapid7 pins China's old-school espionage crew for Chrysalis backdoor via hijacked updates till December 2025. Developer Don Ho confirmed selective targeting, CISA's probing USG exposure. US tech defense? Slam firewalls on dev tools, air-gap updates. Stay vigilant, listeners—rotate those certs, segment networks, and run YARA hunts for DKnife signatures. China's playing 5D cyber chess; we're countering with hygiene. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for daily 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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This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense is your go-to podcast for the latest insights on China-linked cyber activities impacting US interests. Tune in daily to stay informed about newly discovered malware, sectors under attack, and emergency patches. Get expert analysis on official warnings and immediate defensive actions recommended by CISA and other authorities. Stay ahead of cyber threats with our timely updates and strategic insights to safeguard your tech infrastructure. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs

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