China's Chaos Cookbook: Breaches, Backdoors, and Beijing's Spicy Cyber Moves

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.

Today’s November 5th, 2025, and guess what—Red Alert is back! I’m Ting, and trust me, you’re going to want to hear this cyber rundown, because China’s been busy and our firewalls are sweating bullets. Let’s skip the pleasantries and hit the juicy stuff.

This morning, I was jolted awake by my phone screeching with a new CISA emergency alert: active exploitation of the Gladinet cloud file manager and Control Web Panel flaws, both now on CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Picture this: CVE-2025-11371 in Gladinet got a 7.5 out of 10 on the pain scale, but that’s nothing next to the CWP headline-grabber—remote command execution, unauthenticated. If you’re running unpatched panels, Chinese state-linked operators could be rooting around in your system before you’re even done with your coffee. This is not random—Security Week warned yesterday that CISA flagged these vulnerabilities because of proven, in-the-wild abuse, with US infrastructure as the main entrée.

Just after noon, I checked in with the FBI’s InfraGard portal—always a thrill. Multiple agencies, from healthcare networks in Illinois to financial apps tied to Silicon Valley, reported unexplained outbound traffic spikes, some traced back to known Chinese APT infrastructure. What’s their tactic? An old favorite: supply chain hits, targeting third-party vendors to leapfrog straight into big fish networks.

Let’s dial back 24 hours—Tuesday night, the US Cybersecurity Center was humming about the “Trinity of Chaos,” a new, unholy merger between Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters. Trustwave confirmed that this cybercrime Justice League has amped coordination with China-derived toolkits, meaning our homegrown ransomware artists are blending backdoors straight out of Beijing’s cookbook. Telegram’s try-hard moderation hasn’t dented their channel count—they just pop up under new names and keep trading access like Pokémon cards.

CISA and the FBI have been scrambling out advisories—all hands on deck! Every US business should be tracking CISA’s Known Exploited list, patching Gladinet, CWP, broadening logs, running outbound scan rules, and segmenting mission-critical systems right now. Oh, and watch your backups—several compromised orgs reported attackers quietly staging in place, “prepositioning,” as the Stimson Center points out, ready to hold key infrastructure for ransom or sabotage if the US and China’s trade dance gets any messier.

About escalation: If today’s pattern holds, you’d better believe the next move could be more than data theft. With rare earth negotiations tense and reciprocal tariffs back in the news, these prepositioned attacks could be activated, threatening major US utilities or financial systems—classic multi-domain deterrence straight from China’s playbook.

I’ll leave you with this: patch, isolate, rehearse your incident response, and don’t sleep on the emergency advisories. Thanks for tuning in—make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss the next breach. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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