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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. 17小时前

    CBO Hacked! China's AI Malware Wreaks Havoc on US Tech Giants

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, I’m Ting, your one-woman firewall bursting with all the latest China cyber shenanigans! Buckle in: here’s what you’ve got to know about today’s critical China-linked activities hitting US tech and defense. The top headline you literally cannot ignore: suspected Chinese state-backed hackers are in the spotlight for hammering the Congressional Budget Office in Washington. That’s not just any agency—they advise Congress on everything from spending to deficits. The breach, disclosed to congressional staff, may have exposed juicy details about US lawmakers’ comms and even Congressional cost projections, which Beijing would definitely like to peek at. This alert came out while most of the CISA workforce was still furloughed for the ongoing government shutdown—talk about terrible timing. The office’s spokesperson says containment happened fast and extra monitoring’s in place, but the hackers’ full reach is still under investigation. Notably, Capitol Hill IT told staffers: don’t touch CBO links right now because their own accounts may still be booby-trapped. Zooming out, the Salt Typhoon group—yes, the same squad the FBI says may have stolen data from “nearly every American”—is causing international heartburn. Salt Typhoon is backed by the Chinese state and has hit at least 200 companies in 80 countries since 2019, but the US round this week is another big deal. Their specialty: targeting the networks that keep our world humming—telecoms, government servers, even military infrastructure. AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, no one is safe. Intelligence agencies from the UK, Germany, and Japan have all linked arms with the US in a rare united front, urging companies to hunt for intrusions and implement every mitigation in the new CISA security advisory. The FBI’s even tacked a $10 million bounty for leads on these folks—so if your cousin’s a Salt Typhoon insider, now’s the time to turn them in! For newly discovered malware, researchers have identified “spinstallX.aspx” scripts showing up in SharePoint deployments, the calling card of this summer’s ToolShell attack. After Vietnamese researcher Dinh Ho Anh Khoa demoed vulnerabilities at Pwn2Own Berlin, Chinese actors—namely Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603—weaponized the flaws before Microsoft even finished patching. Microsoft’s MAPP program, which shares vulnerability details pre-release with security partners, got burned when exploitation happened the exact day of its last confidential notifications. Now Microsoft has restricted access for all Chinese MAPP partners: no more proof-of-concept code, just bland written notes, and private notifications go public at the same time as patches. CISA, as usual, is not mincing words: emergency guidance went out this morning for any US org running SharePoint, especially in energy, finance, and transportation sectors. Immediate actions: patch all SharePoint servers, rotate ASP.NET machine keys, enable anti-malware interface scanning, and look for suspicious POST requests referencing /ToolPane.aspx. Disconnect internet-facing servers if they aren’t fully updated. Meanwhile, in the malware arms race, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that Chinese-linked groups are now using AI-mutating malware—programs that change on the fly to dodge detection. SonicWall, Cisco, and even Samsung have had to issue high-priority emergency patches for critical vulnerabilities under active Chinese exploitation—so if you haven’t patched this week, you might as well leave your front door open. Special shout-out to US non-profits, too: Security Affairs reports a coordinated China-linked surveillance operation against a prominent policy think tank, with the goal of gaining long-term access to sensitive internal strategy documents. Cyber espionage isn’t just about governments; it's trickling straight into think tank research influencing national policy. Thanks for tuning in to China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense. As always, subscribe, patch like there’s no tomorrow, and beware random CBO emails! 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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  2. 2天前

    Hacked in a Handbasket: CBO Breached, Shutdown Woes, and Chinese Cyber Cloak-and-Dagger

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey there, I’m Ting, your go-to for all things China, cyber, and—today especially—hacking drama in the US tech defense landscape. Buckle up, because the last 24 hours have been a digital roller coasters with a side order of government shutdown chaos and a main course of China-linked cyber intrigue. Let’s jump right in with the headline-grabber: the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, just got hit by a cyberattack suspected to be backed by Chinese state actors. CNN broke the story, and the email blast to congressional staff said this attack’s not over yet—staff were urged to steer clear of links from CBO accounts while the investigation scrambles onward. Now, the CBO isn’t just any government agency; it provides lawmakers with budget projections and legislative analysis. Imagine the foreign intelligence value as Congress wrangles with trade and policy—no wonder this was a target of choice. And just to raise the stakes? This breach happened with the backdrop of a record-breaking 37-day federal shutdown, which meant massive CISA staff furloughs, thinning the cyberdefense ranks to almost a skeleton crew. The CBO’s spokesperson, Caitlin Emma, said they’ve jumped straight into containment mode and fired up extra monitoring, but the threat persists. Next, we need to talk about the technical nitty-gritty. Over at Symantec and Carbon Black, researchers revealed details on how these China-linked attackers—think APT41, Kelp, and the ever-hungry Space Pirates—use everything from ancient bugs like Log4j and Apache Struts to fresh exploits in Atlassian and GoAhead web servers to worm their way in. This isn’t smash and grab. This is classic, maintain-your-stealthy-beachhead for weeks, maybe longer. Case in point: after sneaking in, attackers often set up scheduled tasks using Windows tools, inject code into legitimate processes, and then tunnel back to command-and-control servers. We’re talking about new flavors of malware, from custom remote access trojans to DLL loaders sideloaded into “csc.exe,” and even use of old favorite tools like netstat for network sniffing. There’s a powerful trend here—tool sharing among Chinese-linked groups makes attribution messy and detection even worse. The sectors under siege? Today, it’s federal government, policy-making non-profits, and let’s not forget the financial sector, which, thanks to regulation changes, is running tabletop cyber resilience exercises just to keep up with the attacks. For everyone else, the attacks serve as a wake-up call that nobody—especially those influencing US policy or holding sensitive information—is out of range. What about patches and emergency actions? Amid this chaos, CISA issued new guidance to lock down Microsoft Exchange and VMware systems after active exploits related to China-linked intrusions surfaced. Agencies are urged to patch CVE-2025-41244 for VMware and check Exchange configs ASAP, restrict admin access, and turn on multi-factor authentication wherever possible. Also, attention is locked on WinRAR’s new security hole, after researchers tracked exploitation chains delivering shellcode back to Chinese-controlled servers. Immediate advice? If you’re running key US infrastructure—think government, energy, financial—stop what you’re doing and check your logs for odd scheduled tasks, unusual connections, and legacy software exposure. Update, patch, and enable network segmentation. Incident response isn’t optional, it’s your Friday night plans. That’s a wrap from me, Ting. Thanks for tuning in to China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense. Don’t forget to subscribe to stay ahead of the next zero day. 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天前

    Gladinet, CWP Hacked! China's Cyber Buffet Targets US Tech

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Ting here, your daily byte of cyber-wit and frontline defense—by now, if you haven’t checked your patch levels, go do it on a second screen. China-linked threat activity isn’t just about data theft—today it’s like a buffet: file-sharing platforms, critical infrastructure, web servers, even our election machines, all under siege. Let’s fire up today’s dashboard. Top of the leaderboard: CISA has ordered emergency patching across the federal enterprise as two critical vulnerabilities made the “pwned in the wild” list. First up, Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox, those enterprise file-sharing apps you think are locked-down—wrong. Huntress just flagged a nasty Local File Inclusion bug, tracked as CVE-2025-11371, letting attackers slurp up sensitive config files. Why does it matter? From there, the attackers yank your machineKey, chain it with a ViewState deserialization exploit, and—bada-bing, remote code execution. The patch is out, and CISA’s asking every FCEB agency to patch yesterday. Not to be outdone, the Control Web Panel (formerly CentOS Web Panel) has a shell-metacharacter fiesta in its file manager (CVE-2025-48703). Flaw lets threat actors cut right past authentication—think: direct shell command execution as a non-root user, which is usually enough to set up reverse shells or start siphoning off your company’s secrets. Patch v0.9.8.1205 dropped in June—if you’ve ignored it, CISA wants a word. Meanwhile, the F5 “nation-state level compromise” remains a headache worthy of aspirin rations. Security officials have confirmed Chinese espionage actors got into F5’s source code—so now, expect crafted exploits targeting very specific, high-value F5 appliances. If your org uses BIG-IP boxes (that covers just about every enterprise, bank, and hospital), it’s a must to apply F5’s October patch, audit for weird traffic, and segment management interfaces. CISA’s emergency directive here is clear: patch or perish. Now to routers and switches—ever heard of BadCandy? This implant hijacks Cisco IOS XE devices via CVE-2023-20198, and there’s a fresh wave of exploitation. Australian and U.S. advisors both warn it could mean persistence for China-backed teams like Salt Typhoon. A simple reboot only nixes the infection temporarily; if attackers already pillaged credentials, they could be lurking unseen. Turning to critical infrastructure, today’s CISA advisories hit the manufacturing and aviation sectors. Radiometrics VizAir weather gear had a flaw that let remote attackers tweak flight weather parameters, manipulate runway settings, and trigger hazardous conditions—all via an unauthenticated admin panel. Airports, get those updates installed, and don’t ever expose these devices to the open internet! Other headlines: CrowdStrike and Proofpoint highlight hacking crews targeting U.S. logistics—the trucking and freight sectors—using phishing and remote access tools to win and reroute freight contracts. If you noticed sudden “too-good-to-be-true” offers from unknown logistics firms, doublecheck for remote tools operating inside your network. Patch fatigue is real, especially with CISA facing over a thousand job cuts and a shaky federal shutdown stretching thin the folks who keep agencies patched, guided, and resilient. It could hardly be a worse time to be slow on the defensive trigger—especially with deepfakes and election risks surging. So, techies, here’s your action checklist for the next 24 hours: patch any listed CISA vulnerabilities—Gladinet, CWP, Cisco IOS XE, F5—today. Tighten access controls, monitor for odd logins and exports, and stay off suspicious emails and links. If you’re critical infrastructure, you know what to do—segmentation, patching, and absolutely don’t let sensitive endpoints chat on the internet unsupervised. That’s the pulse as of November 5th, 2025. Thanks for tuning in to China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense. Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss tomorrow’s 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 This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  4. 6天前

    China Hacks Gone Wild: Zero-Days, Stolen Certs, and Cyber Espionage Galore!

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, Ting here, your witty companion for all things China, hacking, and digital insanity. It's November 3, 2025, and the cyber threat board is lighting up faster than my espresso machine during Black Hat. I'm ditching the preamble—let's jump into the top China-linked cyber commotion shaking up US tech defense in the last 24 hours. First up: malware news hotter than Sichuan pepper. Spotted by researchers at Palo Alto Networks, the China-nexus cluster CL SDA-1009 just unleashed their Airstalk malware—this nasty beast abuses VMware AirWatch and Workspace ONE APIs to siphon off browser data, screenshots, and credentials, without triggering the usual alarms. How? Stolen code-signing certificates and an invisible approach. The target? US business process outsourcing providers, handing China indirect access into client systems through classic supply chain espionage. If you’re running enterprise MDM, go check for weird API call patterns and force-mandatory reauthentication now. CISA is sounding the horn on minimizing vendor access—least privilege is the move, listeners. Next, let's talk infrastructure on the firing line. The China-affiliated Storm-1849 and UNC5221 threat groups are hammering US government and financial sector networks through Cisco ASA firewalls and Microsoft patching servers. CVE-2025-20362 and its evil twin, CVE-2025-20333, are in live exploitation—attackers are bypassing firewall authentication and running remote code, creating rogue admin accounts and suppressing logs. CISA fired off an emergency directive: patch all ASA and FTD devices and, if you spot end-of-life hardware, rip and replace. Segment your VPN and audit admin accounts; compromised edge means compromise everywhere. The juiciest zero-day right now? Microsoft WSUS's CVE-2025-59287—remote code execution, CVSS 9.8. UNC6512 are weaponizing it with Skuld Stealer malware, quietly moving laterally and exfiltrating data from US financial and defense backbones. CISA stacked this flaw into the KEV catalog—if you haven’t patched, drop everything and fix. The national Malware Condition index is hanging at Level 3, but with Storm-1849’s coordinated attack, experts forecast a jump to Level 4: Severe, within the week. This is not a drill. On the ransomware ramp, KYBER and Crimson Collective have shifted to extortion ops, pumping out attacks against US aerospace, defense, and tech firms using AWS-specific chains and even abusing CloudTrail. If your logs look abnormal, disable legacy authentication and enable multi-factor authentication now. And lurking behind the curtain: The Bronze Butler crew, who exploited the Landscope Endpoint Manager zero-day. This one, patched as of today, allowed remote code execution and domain-wide privilege escalation—GoKCPDoor is now lurking on compromised networks. For defenders: endpoint management is the crown jewel. Patch Landscope, force password resets, and monitor domain admin activity like your job depends on it—because it does. CISA, backed by NSA, is reminding everyone to restrict admin access, enforce multi-factor authentication, and evaluate cloud-based communication for resilience, especially with the government still limping through a shutdown. Don’t wait for the next heap of emergency advisories—proactive defense is your difference between reporting a breach and stopping one. To wrap up, today’s China hack report boils down to one word: escalation. From supply chain infiltrations and “trust infrastructure” pummeling to emergency patch marathons, the past 24 hours prove that vigilance isn’t optional—it’s foundational. That’s a tech-packed rundown straight from Ting. Thanks for tuning in, and remember—subscribe for your daily digital reality check. 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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  5. 11月2日

    Grandmas router banned, PlugX slims down, and AI jets lure spies - oh my! China cyber tea, piping hot

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Today is November 2nd, 2025, and you’re plugged into the cyber trenches with me, Ting, your friendly neighborhood China cyberwatcher! Buckle up, because the past 24 hours have been a blizzard of digital drama—packed with new malware, warnings, emergency patches, and even router bans that’d make your grandma’s TP-Link quake. Let’s start with the most urgent news: the Department of Commerce, along with Defense and Homeland Security, is considering a total ban on TP-Link Wi-Fi routers in the U.S. after a recent inter-agency risk review flagged ongoing concerns about Chinese government influence over TP-Link’s American operations. Those routers, which anchor up to 65% of U.S. homes, might soon be in regulatory purgatory. For now, CISA and DHS both say: update your router firmware, nuke default passwords, and turn off remote management. These are your three-minute defensive actions—do them before your next coffee run, not after. Now malware. Over in the Windows Wild West, state-backed outfit UNC6384—yes, the Mustang Panda siblings—have been caught using a Windows shortcut exploit, CVE-2025-9491, to drop PlugX malware on diplomatic targets. The new hotness: shrunken PlugX payloads and ultra-stealthy deploy methods. Arctic Wolf found that the CanonStager loader dropped from a chonky 700 kilobytes to just 4 KB by last month, making it basically invisible to legacy defense tools. Microsoft confirms that Smart App Control and Defender will spot the attack chain, but only if you patch and don’t click random “EU coordination” invites. Social engineering plus PowerShell trickery equals diplomatic disaster. Meanwhile, CISA just added fresh pain to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. XWiki’s CVE-2025-24893 and VMware Aria’s CVE-2025-41244 are now seeing live attacks—get those patches installed now. CISA isn’t mincing words: attackers are moving faster than your IT department, so if you manage or use those platforms, patch or face uninvited guests. In nation-state espionage, Ribbon Communications just discovered that a 10-month-long breach, likely China-linked, exposed client communications for government and Fortune 500 targets. This is proof, yet again, that threat actors are getting better at hiding—moving laterally and lurking under the radar for months before blowing cover. In sector news, U.S. defense contractors—especially those dabbling in next-gen drone tech like Anduril’s YFQ-44A—remain red-hot targets. The debut of that autonomous AI fighter jet just three days ago was trumpeted as a win for U.S. innovation, but it’s also a glittering beacon for cyberespionage crews from China to Moscow. Spear-phishing around related defense programs is up, with CISA warning compliance teams to double scrutinize file shares and access requests tied to unmanned systems. Lastly, officials in Manila warned yesterday about a credible threat of DDoS attacks targeting public web infrastructure this coming week, a pattern that often foreshadows or overlaps with more sophisticated attacks elsewhere—so SOC teams, stay caffeinated and keep incident response scripts handy. Thanks for tuning in to China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense. Make sure to subscribe for your daily dose of what’s lurking behind the Great Firewall. 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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  6. 10月31日

    China's Cyber Tricks & Treats: VMware, Telco Hacks Spook US Tech on Halloween 2025

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hey listeners, I’m Ting, your go-to for the juiciest cyber scoops, especially when China’s in the mix. Today’s Halloween, October 31, 2025, but trust me: the real scares are in cyber, not haunted houses. Let’s jump right into the latest hacks, malware frights, and official CISA alerts hitting US tech and defense over the past 24 hours—no spooky stories, just hard-hitting reality. First, the showstopper: the just-uncovered VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations vulnerability—CVE-2025-41244—has been in active exploitation by Chinese state hackers, specifically the group known as UNC5174, for nearly a year. This flaw lets any user with basic access to a virtual machine break out and seize root control. Think of it as someone sneaking into your locked guest room and suddenly having the keys to your whole house. CISA rushed out an emergency directive yesterday and put this flaw at the top of its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. If you’re running affected VMware, patch now or disconnect from the network—seriously, don’t wait to become the next headline. The deadline for federal agencies is November 20, but private orgs: you are not immune. The group behind these attacks, UNC5174, works as a contractor for China’s Ministry of State Security and is also linked to breaches at US defense and telecom giants earlier this year. Maxime Thiebaut from NVISO first found the bug, confirming it’s not just theoretical—full proof of concept code is floating around, and attacks are ongoing according to both CISA and the Google Mandiant team. But wait—it's not just virtualization platforms dripping in risk. Auburn University’s McCrary Institute and Microsoft both confirm that China’s “Typhoon” hacking umbrella—think Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, Linen Typhoon, and more—is probing and, in many cases, deeply embedded within critical US infrastructure. That means energy, water, telecom, transportation, and healthcare. The Salt Typhoon crew, for instance, breached Verizon, AT&T, and Charter, snarfing up metadata for a million US users, including government officials, and even getting views into lawful intercept data that law enforcement uses. It’s almost a Netflix show: code names, sector-hopping, and a relentless drive for disruption. Telecommunications are in the crosshairs, with Ribbon Communications reporting a likely China-backed breach—customer files on laptops were accessed. They’re tight-lipped on technical specifics, but say the snooping may have started way back in December 2024. Response involved federal law enforcement and third-party cyber firepower, but it’s a sober reminder: attackers are patient, persistent, and sometimes invisible until it’s too late. On the wider stage, Chinese-linked group UNC6384—closely related to Mustang Panda—has been busy in Europe, targeting diplomatic networks with spear phishing and the classic PlugX rat. While not a US direct hit, their methodology and tooling often cross the pond, so defenders should take note: social engineering and Linked malware campaigns are evergreen. Your defense plan for today, according to CISA: patch all VMware Aria and Tools installs now, verify your segmentation on critical infrastructure networks, audit logs for unusual authentication, and educate staff against social engineering—especially in sectors at highest risk. The US is fighting back with indictments, advisories, and sanctions, but the game is endurance. So that’s your cyber threat rundown for this Halloween. Don’t forget to subscribe, stay patched, and stay paranoid—in a good way! Thanks for tuning in, and 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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  7. 10月29日

    China's Cyber Shenanigans: WSUS Woes, Salt Typhoon Strikes, and Qilin's Rampage!

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. This is Ting, coming at you with another China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense, and tonight’s theme is breakneck escalation. Let’s skip the appetizer and carve right into what mattered most for US cyber defense and why nobody in SecOps got much sleep last night. First up, if you have anything running Microsoft WSUS, pay attention. Researchers at Gurucul and HackerNews confirmed that CVE-2025-59287—yeah, that’s a 9.8 on the “scream and unplug it” scale—continues to get hammered. Even after getting its so-called Patch Tuesday bandaid, attackers linked with China and Eastern Europe have been exploiting exposed servers with remote code execution, escalating privileges, and in some cases, taking over entire update infrastructures. CISA pushed this flaw straight to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, telling everyone with legacy WSUS deployments or lazy patch habits to update, now, or suffer the déjà vu of standing up a new network from scratch. But WSUS isn’t the only thing in hot water. Salt Typhoon—a group with ties to China, also known as Earth Estries—was spotted by Darktrace hitting a European telecom using an old Citrix NetScaler exploit, the same one published over the summer. Why should you care, listeners? Because their post-exploitation hooks showed up in an American university’s logs yesterday, seriously suggesting reconnaissance or even lateral movement on US soil. The playbook is classic: find one weak link, pivot, harvest credentials, and exfiltrate. Salt Typhoon isn’t just targeting Europe anymore—the scope is clearly global, and US research or telecom orgs should consider themselves on high alert. On the supply chain front, the Qilin ransomware crew, while not strictly Beijing-backed, remains a global headache and their toolsets overlap with “Premier Pass-as-a-Service” operations. Gurucul reports that Qilin keeps up its pace at over 40 breaches a month, with CISA warning manufacturers and scientific facilities to review segmentation, offline backups, and to track anything using Cyberduck or lateral spreading via PsExec. What about policy? China’s Cyberspace Administration is prepping some of the world’s stiffest incident reporting mandates for its own operators and infrastructure, but here’s the kicker—US lawmakers and the FCC responded by tightening bans and scrutiny on nine Chinese telecom entities this week, which, as reported by Security Boulevard, means any device even whispering “manufactured in Beijing” is now on the blacklist. Yesterday saw Cobalt Strike beacons lit up from a mainland China IP, targeting port 8888, a classic precursor to wider command-and-control operations. Meanwhile, Delmia Apriso, key in manufacturing ops, made CISA’s alert list after reports of exploitation targeting its platform—if you’re tracking critical infrastructure, watch those dashboards. Immediate action check: patch WSUS again, validate Citrix and SharePoint hardening, and hunt for suspicious Cyberduck activity or Cobalt Strike signatures. CISA’s bulletins for late October urge layered defense, rapid vulnerability scanning, and all-hands phishing simulation. That’s it for today’s China Hack Report. Thanks for tuning in, catch me tomorrow, and don’t forget to subscribe! 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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  8. 10月27日

    Microsoft's Patch Panic: China's Cyber Tag-Team Strikes Again!

    This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast. Hello listeners, Ting here, your go-to for China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense—diving headfirst into the past 24 hours where digits met drama and national security had another sleepless night. Let’s cut straight to what set keyboards clacking: Microsoft’s emergency patch. If you work with Windows Server Update Services, listen up! Microsoft just confirmed active exploitation of a devastating remote code execution flaw—CVSS 9.8, brutal even by hacker standards. This is CVE-2025-59287, and it lets attackers turn legitimate Windows updates into sneaky malware delivery—think “trusted system update” morphing into stealthy sabotage. Microsoft pushed a fix on October 23, 2025, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) shouted an all-out alert for every U.S. agency and company running WSUS: patch now, reboot, and validate every system. CISA was explicit—servers without the new patch could let attackers poison entire enterprise networks. If you haven’t patched yet, stop multitasking and do it. Seriously. But the drama doesn’t end there. Over the last day, Trend Research dropped a bombshell about new “Premier Pass-as-a-Service” tactics among China-aligned advanced persistent threat groups, chiefly Earth Estries and Earth Naga—also known in the cool kids’ club as Flax Typhoon or RedJuliett. These groups are not just hacking separately anymore. Instead, they’re sharing compromised network access—like one group breaking in, then handing over the virtual keys to another, who moves in for the data loot. It’s next-level coordination, and it’s been seen across government and telecom sectors, even hitting major retail organizations. Earth Estries deployed its CrowDoor backdoor for stealth, then Earth Naga swept in with the notorious ShadowPad malware. Both toolkits have been part of real, confirmed attacks from late 2024 through mid-2025, but the ramifications for U.S. critical infrastructure and supply chains are only piling up. Now, phishing is an old game, but the massive “Smishing Triad” campaign reported by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 takes it global. Attackers ran over 194,000 malicious domains, many with traces back to Chinese infrastructure, distributing SMS phishing messages imitating everything from government agencies to parcel carriers. The domains reset and respawn so rapidly, security teams struggle to blacklist them before your HR gets that fateful “urgent tax notice” text. Ransomware didn’t take the weekend off: On October 26, the Play ransomware crew hit Metal Pros, a big U.S. manufacturing player, and threatened a leak unless paid. The list of recommendations from response pros is a must-do—incident reviews, encrypted backups, threat intel integration, and your best friend: multi-factor authentication. Big picture: national strategy and CISA's work are being stretched to the limit, as covered in the latest FDD cyber report. Ongoing call-outs urge Congress to stabilize cybersecurity funding and staff, noting without it, adversaries won’t feel the pain, while U.S. companies bear the brunt. Tech diplomacy, too, is now squarely on the table—clear as day that Chinese state-linked hackers are raising their game globally. Thanks for tuning in—remember to subscribe so no cyber shadow can catch you napping. 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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