Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos—witty bytes with a side of zero-days. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-hot sprint of Beijing's hackers lighting up US targets like it's Double Dragon on steroids. We're talking Volt Typhoon, that stealthy Chinese APT crew UNC3886, burrowing deeper into American critical infrastructure as of this week. According to CYFIRMA's Weekly Intelligence Report from February 20, 2026, these pros—linked to China's state since 2021—have zeroed in on utilities, defense, telecoms, and tech, exploiting edge devices like VPNs and gateways with fresh zero-days. Dragos researchers warn they're still embedded in US power grids, mapping networks for the long game.Timeline kicks off mid-February: Palo Alto Networks spotted a massive hacking spree but held back naming China publicly—fear of Beijing's clapback, per Reuters sources on February 12. By February 19, Singapore's Cyber Security Agency mounted their biggest op ever against UNC3886, who hit four major telcos in a spying bonanza, stealing call metadata and more. Echoes hit the US defense industrial base hard—Google Mandiant reports Chinese crews compromising two dozen orgs for military secrets and IP theft, using living-off-the-land tricks to blend in.Fast-forward to yesterday, February 19: Philippine Armed Forces confirmed persistent China-based DDoS and malware barrages on their networks, amid South China Sea beef—mirroring patterns CYFIRMA tracks in US telecoms like AT&T and Verizon, where Salt Typhoon (another China alias) got evicted but left backdoors. No fresh CISA/FBI emergency alerts today, but CISA's KEV catalog just flagged BeyondTrust's CVE-2026-1731 exploitation in ransomware waves, with Chinese initial access brokers teeing up the plays.New patterns? Obfuscated malware hiding in Windows, token manipulation for priv-esc, and C2 over normal-looking traffic—straight from Volt Typhoon's MITRE playbook per CYFIRMA. Compromised systems include Norwegian telcos, Singapore providers, and US edge networks ripe for disruption.Defensive moves, stat: Patch Ivanti, BeyondTrust, SolarWinds pronto; hunt for anomalous C2 to external IPs; segment OT networks; enable MFA everywhere. US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross just yelled this from Munich's Cyber Security Conference—deeper alliances or get played.Escalation scenarios? If Volt Typhoon flips from espionage to sabotage—like their grid footholds—they could black out East Coast power during a Taiwan flare-up, timed with Philippine-style sea tensions. Or pair with Iranian pals, using Chinese sats like MizarVision to spot US THAAD deployments at Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, per Modern Diplomacy intel. Hybrid hell: DDoS distractions masking data exfil for hybrid warfare.Stay frosty, listeners—China's daily cyber tango ain't slowing. Thanks for tuning in; subscribe for more edge-of-your-seat updates!This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, it's Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos—witty, wired, and watching the hackers like a hawk on Red Bull. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a non-stop ping-pong of PRC probes into US turf, and today, February 18, 2026, Dragos just dropped their annual threat report that's got my OT alarms blaring.Flash back to early 2025: Volt Typhoon's cheeky cousin, Voltzite—Dragos calls them highly correlated with that Beijing-backed beast the US gov's been yelling about—started burrowing deeper into US energy grids. We're talking electric utilities, oil pipelines, and gas ops across the States. They hit Sierra Wireless AirLink devices as entry points, slipping into OT networks like ghosts in the machine. Once inside, they exfiltrated sensor data, snagged engineering workstation configs, and even grabbed alarm files showing how to slam the brakes on operations. In another op, they unleashed the JDY botnet to scan IP ranges and VPNs in energy, oil, gas, and defense sectors—prepping for data heists, Dragos assesses with moderate confidence. Robert M. Lee, Dragos CEO, nailed it in their briefing: these creeps aren't just peeking; they're embedding in the control loops for future blackouts.But wait, there's more fresh heat. Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group revealed today that UNC6201—a PRC-nexus crew overlapping with Silk Typhoon, aka UNC5221—has been exploiting a zero-day in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines since mid-2024. That's CVE-2026-22769, a perfect 10/10 CVSS scorcher from a hardcoded admin password in Apache Tomcat. It grants root access, no auth needed. They've been dropping Brickstorm backdoors for lateral moves, then swapping in the stealthier Grimbolt—machine code that dodges static analysis—plus Slaystyle webshells. CISA added it to their KEV catalog, and just last week, CISA, NSA, and Canada's cyber center pushed new IOCs. Dozens of US orgs hit, dwelling over 400 days undetected, pivoting via "Ghost NICs" in VMware and iptables tricks. Initial access? Likely edge appliances like VPNs.Timeline's brutal: Mid-2024 Dell exploits kick off; 2025 sees Voltzite ramp up in utilities while three new OT threat groups join the party, per Dragos, totaling 11 active last year. Escalation? If tensions spike—say, Taiwan Strait drama—these footholds could flip to wipers or disruptions, turning grids dark like Poland's near-miss in December 2025 from Russia's Electrum crew.Defensive playbook, listeners: Patch Dell RecoverPoint NOW—it's fixed since 2024. Hunt for Brickstorm/Grimbolt IOCs via CISA alerts. Segment OT networks, ditch default creds on edge gear, deploy EDR where you can, and monitor AirLink routers religiously. FCC's yelling at telcos too—ransomware's up fourfold since 2021.Stay vigilant, patch like your power depends on it—because it does.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a non-stop ping-pong of digital jabs from Beijing straight at US throats—red alert level, baby. Let's timeline this frenzy starting February 13th.Taiwan's National Security Bureau dropped a bombshell, warning that China is rehearsing a full-on digital siege, slamming Taiwan's infrastructure with waves of DDoS attacks and probes that mirror a blockade playbook. Think ports, power grids, and comms blacked out—Taiwan says it's happening now, prepping for the real storm. Fast-forward to yesterday, The Record reported China flexing those muscles, while Google's Threat Intelligence Group spilled that Chinese state-sponsored crews are pounding the US Defense Industrial Base. We're talking relentless supply chain hits, workforce infiltrations, and zero-day exploits in edge devices for sneaky persistent access. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 just analyzed TGR-STA-1030, a mega espionage op breaching 70 gov and critical infra orgs across 37 countries—tools like Behinder and Godzilla scream China nexus, even if they're playing coy on attribution to dodge Beijing's wrath.Today, February 16th, FBI's screaming about US agriculture under siege from foreign cyber and bio threats—Lancaster Farming says state actors, wink wink China and pals, targeting farms and food supply. CISA's piling on post-Poland grid hacks, urging US energy sectors to ditch default passwords pronto. And Google's Mandiant flagged nation-state hackers, including Chinese, weaponizing their Gemini AI across the full attack chain—from recon prompts that slip safety filters to malware crafting. TeamPCP, that slick threat cluster, is hijacking exposed US cloud setups like Kubernetes clusters for botnets, crypto mining, and data grabs.New patterns? AI-boosted phishing that's undetectable, cloud API scans for wormable botnets, and DIB pre-positioning for wartime edge. Compromised systems: ag networks, defense contractors, cloud infra. Defensive moves, listeners—patch zero-days yesterday, rotate creds, segment OT from IT, and hunt for Behinder webshells. Run AI red-team sims on your Gemini queries.Escalation scenarios? If Trump-era chaos distracts, China ramps to real siege mode—US ag crippled, DIB sabotaged mid-conflict, blending cyber with bio chaos. Taiwan falls first, then Pacific dominoes. We're one misstep from hybrid war.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for daily drops to stay ahead of the firewall. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth with a front-row seat to China's digital shadow war. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-alert frenzy with Salt Typhoon, that notorious PRC-linked crew also dubbed FamousSparrow and UNC2286, tearing through US telecoms like a hacker hurricane. FortiGuard Labs nails them as espionage pros operating since 2019, zeroing in on US ISPs for juicy law enforcement data grabs.Flash back to early February: Wall Street Journal dropped the bomb that Salt Typhoon infiltrated multiple US internet providers, slurping up wiretap records and call data on Americans, including politicians. CISA and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security echoed this in their joint bulletin, warning of a global espionage blitz targeting telecom giants—think Verizon, AT&T shadows—from Southeast Asia to Africa. By February 13th, CISA fired off alerts on exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk flaws, with Microsoft and Huntress spotting attackers using them as beachheads into networks. Yesterday, February 14th, it escalated: over 300 malicious Chrome extensions were busted leaking user data, per Ransomware Clock, while hackers probed freshly patched BeyondTrust RCE bugs (CVE-2026-1731) in US Treasury-linked tools—echoes of their 2024 zero-day hit.Today's vibe, February 15th at 7 PM UTC? No fresh CISA/FBI emergency blasts, but the timeline screams persistence: Salt Typhoon's still lurking in ISP routers, pivoting to AI-automated attacks as ABC News reported U.S. officials flagging Chinese hackers weaponizing AI for phishing and deepfakes. New patterns? They're chaining unpatched Exchange servers—29,000 exposed online—and WinRAR zero-days for lateral moves, per InfoSec Industry and Help Net Security. Compromised systems include telco core networks, risking mass surveillance.Defensive playbook, straight from CISA/FBI/NSA ransomware guides: Scan backups with AV now, report to us-cert.cisa.gov or your local FBI field office pronto, and apply incident response from the Five Eyes joint advisory—hunt malicious activity like pros. Patch SolarWinds, BeyondTrust, Notepad++ (CVE-2026-20841), everything from Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday.Escalation scenarios? If unchecked, this morphs into full-spectrum dominance: AI-driven DDoS via hijacked domain controllers (Win-DDoS style, DEF CON warned), or proxy botnets from trojanized 7-Zip downloads turning your rig into Beijing's relay. Picture Salt Typhoon exfiltrating election wiretaps pre-2026 midterms, sparking diplomatic nukes—or worse, kinetic retaliation if they hit critical infra like power grids.Stay frosty, listeners: multi-factor everything, segment networks, and hunt anomalies with EDR tools. China's not slowing; we're in the eye of the typhoon.Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more intel drops! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-hot frenzy of Beijing's digital dagger dances aimed straight at Uncle Sam's throat—today's February 13, 2026, and the alerts are screaming louder than a server meltdown.Picture this: Just yesterday, Google Threat Intelligence dropped a bombshell report linking China-nexus crews like UNC3236, aka Volt Typhoon, and UNC6508 to relentless probes on North American defense contractors. These sneaky operators are hitting edge devices—think routers and IoT gadgets—with ARCMAZE obfuscation to mask their tracks, while UNC6508 exploited a REDCap flaw back in late 2023 to plant INFINITERED malware for credential theft at a U.S. research institute. Fast-forward to this week: Recorded Future News exposed China's "Expedition Cloud" platform, a covert sim lab where PLA hackers rehearse takedowns on power grids, energy lines, and transport nets of South China Sea rivals. Leaked docs show recon squads mapping victim networks first, then attack teams pouncing—no defenders invited to the party. Witty, right? They're basically running Cyber Grand Theft Auto on real-world replicas.Timeline ramps up: Early this week, Reuters revealed Palo Alto Networks held back naming China in a global espionage op over retaliation fears—classic Beijing bully tactics. Then bam, Dark Reading confirms Salt Typhoon, that China-backed beast, burrowed into the U.S. National Guard for nearly a year, slurping secrets. No CISA or FBI emergency blasts today, but Google's flagging state hackers juicing Gemini AI for phishing polish—crafting grammar-perfect lures and rapport chats to drop malware on DIB targets. FDD's Overnight Brief notes the Trump admin shelved bans on China Telecom U.S. ops and data center gear sales ahead of an April Xi-Trump powwow—talk about mixed signals.New patterns? ORB networks for stealth recon, AI-boosted ops per Google's CyberScoop nod, and edge exploits galore. Compromised systems: Defense portals, military contractors, even Starlink echoes from Iran ops but China's aping that playbook. Defensive must-dos: Patch Exchange servers yesterday—29,000 still vuln per CUInfoSecurity—hunt ORBs with tools like Wireshark, segment edges per CISA best practices, and deploy EDR like a boss. Navy's budgeting cyber boosts, per Breaking Defense.Escalation scenarios? If Trump pauses hold, Volt Typhoon 2.0 could cascade to grid blackouts or APEC sabotage—Reuters hints at maritime AI counters, but Beijing's Tianfu Cup hacking fest revival screams they're honing zero-days under secrecy. Multi-vector siege: espionage today, disruption tomorrow if Taiwan heats up.Stay frosty, listeners—multi-factor your life, audit edges, and whisper "ni hao" to your IDS. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red alert frenzy with PRC cyber wolves circling US targets like sharks at a data buffet. Let's dive into today's hottest mess: Google Threat Intelligence Group's bombshell report flags China-nexus crews like UNC3886 and UNC5221 hammering the defense industrial base harder than ever. These sneaky operators are all about edge devices—think vulnerable routers and appliances—for that sweet initial access, then pivoting to espionage goldmines in aerospace firms and supply chains. Over the last two years, they've outpaced everyone in volume, per GTIG's February 11 analysis.Flash back to the timeline: Just days ago, the FBI's Operation Winter Shield podcast dropped part two, with Brett Leatherman spilling tea on Salt Typhoon and Assault Typhoon. These Ministry of State Security beasts roped in Chinese firms like Integrity Technology Group to broker US network breaches. Salt Typhoon's not slowing—Breached.company reports they're expanding to Norway's telecoms after a year-long squat in the US National Guard networks, per Dark Reading. Imagine that: PRC hackers chilling in Guard systems, siphoning intel while we sip coffee.New patterns? Blended threats are the rage—nation-states outsourcing to criminals, DPRK-style IT workers moonlighting in hospitals, but China's leading with AI wizardry. Anthropic's November advisory nailed it: PRC ops used Claude AI for 80-90% of the kill chain, from recon to privilege escalation. FBI's Leatherman called out Flack's Typhoon too, all "whole of society" vibes.CISA and FBI emergency alerts scream defensive must-dos: Patch those OT edge devices NOW, like post-Poland energy hack where RTUs got bricked and HMIs wiped via default creds. Change passwords, enable firmware checks, and drill incident response. Google's urging defense contractors to lock down recruitment—China's APT5 speared personal emails with fake job lures tied to events and training.Escalation scenarios? If Salt Typhoon hits critical infra drills—SCWorld says China's rehearsing attacks via Expedition Cloud—this could flip from espionage to disruption. Picture ransomware on steroids blending with state ops, crippling power grids or defense production amid US-China tensions. North Korea and Russia's pitching in, but China's the volume king.Listeners, stay vigilant: Segment networks, hunt anomalies, and report to CISA. We've got the tools—use 'em before it's game over.Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber dirt! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-hot frenzy of Chinese cyber ops laser-focused on US turf—think Volt Typhoon burrowing deeper into our critical infrastructure like a digital mole on steroids.Flash back to February 3rd: China-linked Lotus Blossom hackers compromised Notepad++'s hosting infrastructure, slipping in a sneaky backdoor called Chrysalis to snag users worldwide, per Rapid7's intel. By February 4th, Amaranth-Dragon—tied to APT41—exploited a WinRAR flaw for espionage hits on Southeast Asian govs and cops, but the pattern screams US adjacency. Fast-forward to February 6th: DKnife, a China-nexus adversary-in-the-middle framework active since 2019, per Cisco Talos, hijacks routers for traffic manipulation and malware drops—perfect for blending into US edge networks.Today, February 9th, the International Institute for Strategic Studies drops a bombshell via John Bruce: Volt Typhoon isn't just spying; it's pre-positioning for disruption. This APT group's embedded in US comms, energy, transport, and gov systems—Guam ports and air bases especially, priming for a Taiwan crisis. They "live off the land," abusing legit admin tools and hijacking SOHO routers to masquerade as normal traffic, dodging detection. IISS warns it's redrawing cyber norms, thumbing its nose at UN Norm 13(f) against impairing critical infrastructure.No fresh CISA or FBI emergency alerts today, but CISA's February 6th directive mandates federal agencies ditch unsupported edge devices in 12-18 months—direct counter to Volt Typhoon's playbook. House panels are pushing bills to reauthorize ETAC, targeting Volt and Salt Typhoon in energy grids, as Rep. Evans stressed.Timeline's tight: persistence post-remediation shows they're hunkered down. Escalation? A Taiwan flare-up could flip espionage to blackouts—US naval ops crippled, per IISS. Defend now: Hunt living-off-the-land with behavioral analytics, segment OT networks, patch SolarWinds Web Help Desk (CISA's KEV list), and push "defend forward" ops like the 2018 Cyber Strategy.China's flexing parity with the West, sowing doubt on our cyber edge. Stay vigilant, listeners—scan those routers, enforce zero trust.Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber scoops! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth with a front-row seat to China's daily digital dagger dances against Uncle Sam. Buckle up—it's Red Alert time, and the past few days have been a fireworks show of router hijacks, supply chain stabs, and CISA freakouts. Let's timeline this chaos starting February 3rd.It kicked off with that sneaky Lotus Blossom crew—China-linked hackers with a decade of dirt—breaching Notepad++'s hosting servers, according to Rapid7's deep dive. They slipped in a nasty backdoor called Chrysalis, targeting devs worldwide, but with eyes on US open-source fans. CISA jumped in, probing for federal exposure, while the Notepad++ host confirmed the update domain got pwned. Witty move, hackers—poisoning a coder's best friend? Classic misdirection for espionage gold.Fast-forward to February 6th: Enter DKnife, this Linux-based toolkit from China-nexus ops active since 2019, per cybersecurity recaps from Cyberrecaps and HackerNews. It's hijacking CentOS and Red Hat routers—think adversary-in-the-middle attacks rerouting your WeChat traffic or dropping malware on edge devices. IP 43.132.205.118 is lighting up scans, folks. They're eyeballing Chinese speakers but spilling over to US telecoms and allies. Meanwhile, Amaranth-Dragon—tied to APT41—kept exploiting WinRAR flaws for Southeast Asia gov hits, with Check Point Research warning of blowback to US partners.CISA hit panic mode same day with Binding Operational Directive 26-02, mandating feds inventory EOL routers, firewalls, and VPNs within three months, then ditch 'em in 12. Why? China and Russia state crews are feasting on unpatched junk to burrow into networks. Security Affairs echoes this: unsupported edges are open sesame for infiltration.New patterns? Deep packet inspection via DKnife, supply chain via Notepad++, zero-days on ICS like that DynoWiper wiper attempt—blocked by EDR, but it scorched some Ukrainian power gear. Active threats: Lotus Blossom backdoors, Amaranth-Dragon RAR bombs, router AitM. Defenses? Patch now—SmarterMail RCE is in CISA's KEV catalog—hunt rogue IPs, segment edges, deploy EDR everywhere. Inventory like your life's a BOD audit.Escalation? If DKnife scales to US critical infra, expect blackouts or data Armageddon. Pair it with UNC3886's Singapore hits—OPFOR Journal flags it as Indo-Pacific rehearsal—and we're staring at hybrid war: cyber plus nukes, since Uncle Sam accused Beijing of secret CTBT-busting tests on February 6th per Under Secretary Thomas DiNanno.Stay frosty, listeners—rotate those certs, air-gap the crown jewels, and watch for AitM on your feeds. This has been Ting signing off.Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Alright listeners, Ting here, and buckle up because the cyber landscape just got significantly more intense. We're talking about a massive coordinated espionage operation that's been quietly unfolding across seventy organizations spanning thirty-seven countries, and yes, the United States is squarely in the crosshairs.According to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42, an Asian state-aligned cyber espionage group has spent the past year systematically breaching government and critical infrastructure networks with surgical precision. They've compromised five national law enforcement and border control agencies, three finance ministries, one country's parliament, and are currently maintaining persistent access across multiple victims globally. The scary part? These aren't random attacks. The timing is deliberate and coordinated with geopolitical events.Think about this timeline. In October twenty twenty-five, US diplomats held meetings with Brazilian mining executives, and shortly after, the same attackers compromised Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy. That's not coincidence. In the Czech Republic, after President Petr Pavel met with the Dalai Lama in July, the group immediately launched reconnaissance against Czech government systems including their parliament and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then there's Venezuela. Right after the US captured Nicolas Maduro, the attackers likely breached a Venezuelan state-linked technology facility. The group is literally moving in sync with diplomatic and military operations.What makes this particularly alarming is their toolkit. Unit 42 identified a custom eBPF rootkit called ShadowGuard that operates entirely in kernel space, making detection nearly impossible. They're using a custom loader dubbed Diaoyu with sophisticated sandbox evasion capabilities. These aren't script kiddies. This is professional, patient, and utterly devastating in scope.Their methodology is disturbingly effective. They're using highly targeted spear phishing emails and exploiting known, unpatched vulnerabilities to gain initial access. Once inside, they're exfiltrating email communications, financial data, and sensitive intelligence about military and police operations. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed they're aware of the campaign and working with partners to identify and patch exploited vulnerabilities, but the sheer scale means they're essentially playing catch-up.The reconnaissance alone tells you everything. Between November and December twenty twenty-five, the group scanned infrastructure across a hundred fifty-five countries. That's not reconnaissance for a single operation. That's the groundwork for sustained, long-term compromise campaigns targeting multiple nations simultaneously.For US defenders, this means immediate action on patching, network segmentation, and credential monitoring, particularly around government and critical infrastructure sectors. The threat is active, ongoing, and demonstrably coordinated with strategic priorities.Thanks for tuning in listeners, and make sure you subscribe for more analysis. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth with a front-row seat to China's digital shadow games. Buckle up, because the past 48 hours have been a red alert frenzy—China's hackers are probing US defenses like it's a Black Friday sale on zero-days. Let's dive into the chaos, starting with that Notepad++ supply chain nightmare Risky Business podcast unpacked yesterday.Picture this: Chinese operatives, fresh off targeting Taiwanese bigwigs, slipped malicious code into a Notepad++ update. Boom—tens of thousands of Windows machines worldwide, including juicy US government endpoints, got backdoored. They're not smashing doors; they're surgically exfiltrating data from law enforcement agencies, per The Hacker News reports. Timeline kicks off January 31st with the tainted update drop, escalating February 2nd when CISA flashed emergency alerts for federal patching by Friday. By today, February 4th, FBI chatter confirms active exploitation, with attackers pivoting laterally via RPC flaws like CVE-2025-49760 that Microsoft just patched.But wait, it gets spicier. Over 29,000 unpatched Exchange servers are sitting ducks online, ripe for domain compromise, as InfoSec Industry blared this morning. China's crews are chaining these with Win-DDoS tricks—turning public domain controllers into zombie botnets via RPC and LDAP. Imagine DDoSing critical infrastructure while sipping baijiu in Beijing. CISA and FBI joint bulletin at 2 PM UTC today screamed "patch now or regret," highlighting new patterns: AI-mimicking clawdbots impersonating humans to phish creds, straight out of that OpenClaw mess Risky Business roasted.Defensive playbook? Listeners, segment your networks yesterday—enable MFA everywhere, hunt for Notepad++ anomalies with EDR tools like CrowdStrike, and rotate those RPC endpoints. SolarWinds echoes are screaming: federals, patch Ivanti EPMM and FortiCloud SSO flaws stat, per Cybersecurity Dive and Recorded Future's The Record.Escalation scenarios? If unchecked, this morphs into hybrid hell—China proxies ransomware on US grids while US retaliates with sanctions. UK’s HM Treasury just kicked off probes into cyber sanctions breaches by financial firms, sniffing Chinese money trails. Picture Trump-era tariffs 2.0 hitting Beijing tech, sparking tit-for-tat on Taiwan Strait cables. We've seen it: from Volt Typhoon's water plant hacks to this, it's prelude to real war.Stay vigilant, rotate keys, and air-gap the crown jewels. That's your Ting takeaway—China's not slowing; we're just catching up.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for daily drops to stay ahead of the breach. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red alert frenzy with Chinese state-backed crews dropping bombs on US interests—think supply chain sneak attacks and backdoor blitzes that make SolarWinds look like child's play.Flash back to today, February 2nd, 2026: TechCrunch dropped the mic with Notepad++ developer Don Ho confirming Chinese government hackers hijacked his popular open-source text editor's update servers from June to December 2025. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont first spotted it, revealing how these creeps exploited a bug on Notepad++'s shared hosting setup to redirect select users—mostly orgs with East Asia ties—to a malicious server. Boom: hands-on keyboard access for espionage, no mass chaos, just surgical strikes. Don Ho's blog nails it as "highly selective targeting," echoing Russia's SolarWinds playbook that hit US agencies like Homeland Security and State Department. Patching that bug in November cut 'em off by early December, but the damage? Infected endpoints spilling secrets.Rewind a bit: Just days ago on January 28th, Western Illinois University cybersecurity news flagged Mustang Panda—aka Earth Preta or Twill Typhoon—pushing an updated COOLCLIENT backdoor against government targets for data heists. Same day, Google warned of active exploits on WinRAR's CVE-2025-8088, with Chinese nation-state actors joining Russians to drop payloads. Cisco Talos on January 30th exposed UAT-8099 hammering IIS servers in Asia, but the tech trail screams spillover risks to US networks via VPNs and cloud links.Timeline's brutal: Late 2025 supply chain hits ramp up, January 28th backdoor waves, January 30th server squats, exploding into today's Notepad++ reveal. CISA's been screaming with KEV updates on exploited flaws like VMware's CVE-2024-37079, urging federal feds to patch or perish—no direct China callout, but the pattern fits.Escalation? If Mustang Panda scales COOLCLIENT to US critical infra, pair it with Notepad++ style updates on dev tools like VS Code, and we're talking widespread footholds. Defend now: Audit update mechanisms, enforce SBOMs for open-source, segment dev environments, and hunt for anomalies with EDR like CrowdStrike. MFA everywhere, patch WinRAR yesterday, and block IIS exploits via WAFs.Listeners, stay vigilant—China's cyber orchestra is tuning up for symphony of pain. Thanks for tuning in, smash that subscribe button for more intel drops. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, it's Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos—witty, wired, and watching the wires like a hawk on Red Bull. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a non-stop ping-pong of probes from Beijing's hackers straight at Uncle Sam's jugular. We're talking Red Alert level, with Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon burrowing deeper into US telecoms, power grids, and even Pentagon lines, living off the land like sneaky digital squatters.Flash back to December 2025: Chinese state-sponsored crews punched into the US Treasury's sanctions and economic intel offices, per Inside Telecom reports—shifting from spy games to strategic squatting for future fireworks. Fast-forward to this week, ending February 1st, 2026, and the Pentagon just dropped Cybercom 2.0, their shiny new force overhaul. Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman, acting Cyber Command boss and NSA director, spilled it: "The Chinese execute deliberate campaigns compromising US networks, using native commands to masquerade as legit traffic." That's Typhoon ops in action—Volt Typhoon embedding in energy, water, transport; Salt Typhoon slurping telecom surveillance. Katie Sutton, assistant cyber policy secretary, greenlit this pivot to "engaged persistence," hunting foes with AI sifting data so analysts pounce faster.CISA's been blaring alerts too—added Ivanti EPMM's CVE-2026-1281 code injection (CVSS 9.8) and Fortinet's FortiCloud SSO bypass CVE-2026-24858 to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog just days ago, confirming active exploits. Google Threat Intelligence nuked IPIDEA, a China-based proxy botnet with millions of devices, slashing it by 40% via legal takedowns with Cloudflare and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs. That's no coincidence amid Salt Typhoon's telecom tango.Timeline? October 2025, Auburn's McCrary Institute flagged China's seafloor mapping in South China Sea and Arctic with drones—priming subs to snap US undersea cables and sensors, feeding cyber targeting. By late January 2026, CISA piled on with Linux kernel overflows and SmarterMail flaws. FBI's Operation Winter SHIELD dropped 10 defenses this week: phish-resistant auth, vuln management, ditch end-of-life gear, third-party checks—born from nation-state probes.Defensive playbook, listeners: Patch Fortinet, Ivanti now; hunt insider threats with CISA's fresh guide; deploy AI-driven anomaly detection; ban Chinese supply chain junk per DoD scrutiny. Escalation? If Taiwan tensions spike, these footholds flip to wipers blacking out grids mid-crisis, or spoofed commands scrambling military sats and GPS. Beijing's playing long game for digital dominance; we're scrambling shields.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-hot frenzy of Chinese cyber jabs at US interests—think Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon still lurking like digital landmines in our grids, while fresh ops crank up the heat.Flash back to January 28th: Mustang Panda, that sneaky China-tied crew also called Earth Preta or Twill Typhoon, dropped an upgraded COOLCLIENT backdoor straight into US government endpoints, per HackerNews reports. These APT pros are siphoning data like pros, hitting critical agencies for long-term espionage. Same day, Google sounded alarms on WinRAR's CVE-2025-8088 flaw—Chinese state actors exploiting it for initial footholds, blending with Russian ops to drop payloads on Windows boxes everywhere.By January 30th today, Cisco Talos unmasked UAT-8099, a China-linked gang poisoning IIS servers—not US directly, but their BadIIS malware and GotoHTTP tools via web shells scream scalable tactics ready for American targets like defense contractors. Oh, and ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, just got nailed by the DoJ for swiping 2,000 AI secrets to fuel a China startup—economic espionage at its slickest, compromising our tech edge.CISA's been frantic: They slammed Ivanti's CVE-2026-1281 zero-day into the KEV catalog, mandating federal patches by February 1st after exploits hit orgs. Volt Typhoon's "time bombs" in utilities, telecoms, and pipelines? Still active, as Independent.org details, with FBI yanking Chinese malware from 4,000 US rigs back in January 2025. Salt Typhoon's telecom breaches prompted FCC's CALEA ruling, forcing carriers to lock down against interception.Timeline's brutal: Late 2025, PeckBirdy JScript C2 framework live since '23 targets Asian govs but eyes US; early 2026, UAT-8099 ramps SEO fraud as cover for deeper probes. Escalation? If Xi's crew plants more grid bombs amid Taiwan tensions, we're talking blackouts or market crashes—pair it with AI theft like Ding's, and China's fusing stolen US tech into civil-military weapons. Defend now: Patch WinRAR, FortiOS CVE-2026-24858, Ivanti flaws stat. Enable memory-safe code, multi-factor everywhere, and continuous monitoring—don't wait for CISA BODs. Segment critical infra, hunt for COOLCLIENT beacons with EDR tools.Listeners, stay vigilant—these aren't pranks; they're daily drills for war. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber dirt! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-hot frenzy of Beijing's digital ninjas probing US defenses like it's Black Friday at the data buffet.Let's rewind the tape to January 27th: Bleeping Computer dropped a bombshell that Mustang Panda—those sly Chinese espionage pros aka Earth Preta—unleashed an upgraded COOLCLIENT backdoor, sniping government and telecom targets in Asia and Russia, but make no mistake, their tentacles stretch to US soil too. This bad boy slurps keystrokes, clipboard gold, files, even HTTP proxy creds via TCP commands from shady C2 servers. They pair it with TONESHELL for persistence and QReverse RAT for shell access and screenshots—classic post-exploitation jazz to burrow deep.Fast-forward to today, January 28th, 2026: Google Threat Intelligence Group just lit the fuse, confirming Chinese—and Russian—hackers are feasting on CVE-2025-8088, that critical WinRAR path traversal bug with a juicy CVSS 8.8 score. Patched back in July 2025 with version 7.13, but nah, these crews ignore patches like expired coupons. They craft malicious RAR archives that slip payloads straight into your Windows Startup folder—boom, persistence on reboot. RomCom kicked it off as zero-day on July 18th with SnipBot malware, but now it's nation-states hitting US gov agencies and enterprises for espionage. Financial crooks pile on with RATs and stealers, turning your endpoints into data piñatas.Meanwhile, Mandiant's Charles Carmakal is sounding alarms on a rampant Chinese crew breaching US software devs and law firms—think cloud providers like those powering American corps. They've lurked undetected for over a year, swiping proprietary code to hunt vulns deeper. FBI's knee-deep investigating, calling it a five-alarm fire rivaling Russia's SolarWinds heist. CISA and FBI urge immediate scans: hunt WinRAR logs, Windows Event ID 4688 for rogue processes, monitor Startup folders, patch now, sandbox archives, and lock down with Group Policy. No user perms on startups, folks—least privilege or bust.Timeline's brutal: Summer 2025 trade war spikes, hackers hit Wiley Rein lawyers' emails; Italian cops nab a Chinese vaccine thief linked to intel ops. Escalation? If Trump 2.0 goes offense-first per Matthew Ferren's Council on Foreign Relations warn, China just rebuilds their 50-to-1 hacker horde faster. Picture Salt Typhoon vibes—already spied UK PM aides' phones under Johnson, Truss, Sunak—now eyeing US critical infra for crisis pre-positioning. Defend hard: segment networks, EDR everywhere, or we're handing Xi the keys.Witty tip: Treat every RAR like a Trojan horse—quarantine first, or join the compromised club. Stay vigilant, listeners!Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber spice. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking mayhem. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red alert frenzy with Beijing's digital ninjas probing US defenses like it's their daily tai chi. Let's dive into the chaos starting January 22nd, when TXOne Networks spotted the first wave of exploits hitting CVE-2026-24061 in GNU Inetutils Telnet—yeah, that dusty old protocol everyone's forgotten. Attackers from China-linked IPs, alongside Brazil and Canada probes, shifted from scanning to full rootkit drops, weaponizing telnet daemons to burrow into servers. By January 24th, WIU Cybersecurity Center reported a China-linked APT sneaking into secure email gateways, while Cisco Talos fingered UAT-8837, a Beijing-backed crew exploiting a Sitecore zero-day to infiltrate North American critical infrastructure since last year—think power grids and water plants, echoing that Volt Typhoon playbook from 2023.Fast-forward to today, January 26th, and CISA's dropping emergency bombshells. Their directive on F5 BIG-IP flaws—after a nation-state actor, fingers pointing east, swiped source code from Seattle-based F5's dev labs back in August—orders federal agencies like Justice and State to patch by October or risk total network takeover. Nick Anderson from CISA called it an "imminent risk" for credential theft and lateral moves. No direct attribution yet, but the timing screams China supply chain sabotage, prepping for blackouts like the US pulled on Caracas via ICS hacks on January 3rd—malware flapping breakers, faking normal readings à la Stuxnet.Timeline's brutal: January 22 probes escalate to exploits by 23rd, CISA KEV adds VMware vCenter CVE-2024-37079 and Zimbra flaws actively exploited. Microsoft's flagging AitM phishing on energy firms via SharePoint, and BleepingComputer notes VSCode extensions beaming dev data to China servers—1.5 million installs! Defensive moves? Listeners, inventory your F5s, FortiGates, and telnet relics now; patch VMware and Zimbra yesterday. Segment ICS like your life depends on it—because in escalation scenarios, this dormant footholds light up during Taiwan flare-ups or US elections, syncing with Storm Fern threats CISA warned could wreck infrastructure.If unchecked, we're staring at Industroyer 2.0: grids down, radars blind, economy in flames. China's not blinking—Breached Company whispers of their own insider leaking nuke data to us, but that's deflection. Stay vigilant, rotate those creds, and air-gap the crown jewels.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking chaos. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-hot frenzy of PRC cyber probes slamming US targets—think espionage droppers, blacklisted defenses, and parades of jamming gear that scream "long game domination."Flash back to January 20th: eSentire drops a bombshell on the SyncFuture campaign, weaponized straight out of China and lobbed at India, but the tactics? Pure blueprint for US hits. Phishing emails masquerading as Indian tax docs trick victims into unzipping malicious archives. Boom—DLL side-loading via a signed Microsoft app, anti-debug tricks, then shellcode phoning home to C2 servers for privilege escalation and data exfil. They're monitoring every keystroke, file grab, and secret snatch. If that's not pre-positioning for US critical infra, I don't know what is. Defensive play: Lock down software execution controls, folks—whitelist or bust.Timeline ramps up January 24th: Cybernews blasts CISA's emergency alert on Storm Fern, a nasty that could wreck US power grids and water plants. Active exploitation, listeners—patch your Versa and Zimbra now, or watch systems crumble. Same day, Qilin ransomware tags D&D Building, that big US construction firm in danddbuilding.com. They post extortion notices: "Pay up or your blueprints and bids leak." Not Chinese per se, but amid Beijing's bans—Reuters reports China ordering firms to ditch Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Mandiant, Wiz, all US cyber shields—it's a vulnerability jackpot.Rewind to the weekend: Channel News Asia covers Singapore rejecting extradition for Wang, the Chinese malware kingpin wanted by US DOJ for global botnets selling IP access from infected home PCs. He's the ghost in the machine, and his crew's still active. Jamestown Foundation notes PLA's Cyberspace Force parading UAV relays, signal jammers, and electromagnetic recon vehicles—lessons from Ukraine, tuned for US homeland strikes. CTO at NCSC Substack ties it to DoD's new National Defense Strategy, vowing cyber deterrence while Senate pumps $2.2 billion into CISA ops.Escalation scenarios? If Trump-Xi talks in April flop, expect SyncFuture-style droppers hitting US energy firms next, Storm Fern chaining with PLA jammers for blackouts during Taiwan tensions. Beijing's banning our tools means their hackers roam free in our nets—Rishi Sunak nailed it in The Times: Xi hacks for secrets, pre-positioned for the kill shot.Defend smart: Hunt DLL side-loads with EDR, segment networks per CISA alerts, and drill incident response. China's daily cyber tango ain't slowing—stay frosty.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more edge-of-your-seat intel. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking the world. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a red-alert frenzy with Chinese state-backed crews turning U.S. civilian life into their personal playground. Today, January 23, 2026, the House Homeland Security Committee dropped bombshells in a hearing on cybersecurity threats—Acting CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala straight-up called out China's "pre-positioning" strategy, where hackers burrow into power grids, telecoms, transport like subways and airports, financial services, and even election systems for long-term squats, not quick smash-and-grabs.Flash back to January 9 through 12: PRC fishing vessels swarmed the East China Sea in a massive formation—ISW's China-Taiwan Update flags it as potential military rehearsal, flexing against Japan while eyes stay glued on Taiwan. Then January 17, People's Liberation Army drone buzzed over Pratas Island, first confirmed Taiwanese airspace breach in decades, per ISW, testing defenses and screaming sovereignty grab. By January 21, Cisco Talos nailed UAT-8837, a PRC crew hitting North American critical infrastructure— they slip in, snag Active Directory creds with open-source tools like living-off-the-land, and lock in backdoors for the big show.Huntress spotted another gem: compromised SonicWall VPNs chaining exploits into VMware ESXi virtual machines, core to U.S. data centers and cloud ops. Mustang Panda, that sly PRC outfit, lobbed Venezuela-themed lures—"US now deciding what’s next for Venezuela.zip"—packing LOTUSLITE backdoor at U.S. gov and political targets, per CSCIS Cyber Intelligence Report from January 9-22. AI's supercharging it all—lawmakers at the hearing said it lets attackers scale faster, hide better, like ghost ninjas in the grid.No fresh CISA or FBI emergency alerts today, but the vibe's escalating: 2026 FIFA World Cup, 2028 LA Olympics, America's 250th bash—these are hacker catnip for transport and comms chaos. Defensive playbook? Patch VMs yesterday—ESXi holes are bleeding; hunt SonicWall anomalies; segment Active Directory like your life's on it. Team up with allies—lawmakers pushed Washington-New Delhi intel sharing since attacks hop borders in seconds. Escalation scenarios? Pre-poised actors flip switches during crises, blacking out grids à la Venezuela's January 3 cyber-physical hit, eroding trust without a bullet. Cyberspace is the new battlefield, folks—defend digital like you'd fortify borders.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China and hacks. Buckle up, because the past week has been a red-alert frenzy with Chinese APTs burrowing deeper into US critical infrastructure like it's Black Friday at a data buffet.Flash back to Friday, January 16th: Cisco Talos drops a bombshell on UAT-8837, a China-nexus crew exploiting a Sitecore zero-day to infiltrate North American power grids, water systems, and transit hubs. These stealthy operators, overlapping tactics with Volt Typhoon, have been prepositioning malware since last year—think silent footholds ready to flip the switch on cities during a Taiwan flare-up. Same day, Cisco patches CVE-2025-20393, a zero-day RCE in their Secure Email Gateways hammered by another China-linked APT, UAT-9686. Email gateways down? That's your C-suite's inbox turned spy dropbox.Fast-forward to yesterday's congressional fireworks: Army Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd, incoming Cyber Command boss and NSA director, tells the Senate Armed Services Committee China's the top cyber dog—well-resourced, integrated with PLA goals, laser-focused on our grids, finance, and comms. He paints Volt Typhoon as the poster child: Chinese state actors nesting in US water, power, and transit nets, prepping to hold American communities hostage. Rudd warns of unprecedented speed in Beijing's cyber tech via IP theft and state cash dumps. No deterrence yet—China knows peacetime nukes on infra would spark US fury, but they're testing grayer zones daily.Timeline ramps up: Two days pre-Rudd, House Homeland Security hears Joe Lin of Twenty Technologies roast US restraint—Salt Typhoon gutted AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile; past hauls like Anthem's 79 million health records, Marriott's 383 million passports, Equifax's 145 million finances, and OPM's 22 million SF-86 clearance files give PRC a counterintel goldmine. Emily Harding from CSIS chimes in: Cyber Command's offensive chops are unmatched, but Washington's "norms and sanctions" playbook invites escalation. Lin nails it—adversaries see low costs, so they climb.New patterns? Stealthier prepositioning, zero-days in Sitecore and Cisco gear, blending espionage with sabotage prep. CISA/FBI echoes FBI-CISA's 2024 Volt Typhoon alert—hunt for living-off-the-land tools in your ICS. Defensive must-dos: Patch Sitecore and Cisco AsyncOS now, hunt anomalous lateral movement in OT nets, deploy EDR for pre-positioned beacons, and drill air-gapped segmentation. Cyber Command's eroding footholds via persistent hunts—join 'em.Escalation scenarios? Crisis over Taiwan: Lights out in LA, NYC transit paralyzed, economic chaos. Peacetime? Disinfo floods or subtle grid flickers to test nerves. Beijing's 15th Five-Year Plan juices military cyber, so expect AI-augmented ops by 2030.Stay vigilant, listeners—harden those perimeters or pay the pipers. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more intel drops! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacking—witty bytes and zero-day delights. Buckle up, because the past week has been a red-hot frenzy of Chinese cyber ops slamming US targets like a quantum glitch in a firewall. We're talking daily probes turning into full-on intrusions, and today, January 19th, 2026, CISA and FBI are screaming emergency alerts while the PLA flexes quantum muscle.Flash back to January 9th: China-linked hackers, per Huntress reports, cracked a SonicWall VPN in the US, then exploited zero-day flaws in VMware ESXi servers to bust out of virtual machines. They were inches from ransomware Armageddon on critical systems—think power grids and factories grinding to a halt. Defensive move? Patch that ESXi yesterday, segment your VMs like a pro, and hunt for SonicWall logs screaming compromise.By January 13th, CISA slapped CVE-2025-8110—a nasty Gogs path traversal bug enabling code execution—onto its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list. Active exploitation everywhere, and Cisco Talos fingers China-nexus APTs as culprits. North American critical infrastructure? Ground zero. Listeners, if you're running Gogs, air-gap it or nuke it; FBI urges multi-factor everywhere and zero-trust your repos.Friday the 16th cranked the heat: Cisco patched CVE-2025-20393, a zero-day RCE in their Secure Email Gateways exploited by UAT-9686—another China crew. Same day, UAT-8837, per Cisco Talos, weaponized a Sitecore zero-day to burrow into North American critical infra sectors since last year. Patterns? Stealthy initial access via web apps, then lateral moves for espionage gold—IP theft, blueprints, the works. Emergency action: Audit Sitecore installs, deploy EDR like Talos' tools, and simulate those APT pivots in your next tabletop.Microsoft dropped 114 patches January 14th, including one under active fire, while Varonis exposed "Reprompt" attacks exfiling Copilot data in one click—China's not alone, but their ops overlap. Today? Reuters drops that China's banning US and Israeli cyber software nationwide, citing "national security," while Science and Technology Daily boasts PLA's National University of Defense Technology testing over 10 quantum cyber weapons on frontlines. Quantum cracking AES? Battlefield data siphons? Escalation nightmare.Timeline screams escalation: VPN footholds to VM escapes, web zero-days to email RCEs, now quantum wildcards. If trade wars boil over Taiwan Strait, expect grid blackouts like Ukraine 2016 or Norway's dam flood—US infra's the bullseye. Defensive playbook: CISA/FBI say patch fast, enable AI anomaly detection, diversify vendors, and drill DoS resilience. China wants our tech crown; don't hand it over.Stay vigilant, listeners—harden those edges. Thanks for tuning in; subscribe for more cyber tea. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth with a front-row seat to China's daily digital dance moves. Buckle up—over the past week, Beijing's hackers have been dropping Venezuela-flavored phishing bombs like it's geopolitical karaoke night. On January 16th, Acronis dropped a bombshell report: Mustang Panda, that China-nexus crew the US DOJ tagged as PRC-sponsored back in 2025, fired off emails luring US government agencies with "US now deciding what's next for Venezuela.zip." Click that, and boom—espionage backdoor for remote tasks and data grabs. Simple malware, but paired with Maduro's fresh US Cyber Command takedown on New Year's Day? Genius lure, targeting policy wonks amid the Caracas blackout chaos.Fast-forward to Friday the 16th—Cisco Talos lit up the wires on UAT-8837, a China-linked APT hammering North American critical infrastructure since last year. These stealth ninjas exploited a Sitecore zero-day for initial access, slipping into power grids and comms like ghosts in the machine. Same day, Cisco patched CVE-2025-20393, a max-severity RCE zero-day in their Secure Email Gateways—UAT-9686, another China crew, hit it first in the wild for root-level command execution on spam quarantine features. No CISA or FBI emergency blasts yet, but Huntress caught Chinese speakers abusing VMware ESXi zero-days via a jacked SonicWall VPN back on the 9th—ransomware almost dropped.Timeline's a pressure cooker: January 8th, UAT-7290 (China nexus) reconned telecoms in South Asia and Europe with Linux malware like RushDrop. By the 13th, Check Point unveiled VoidLink, a slick cloud-first framework from China actors—rootkits, loaders, modular plugins for persistent Linux pwnage. CISA's KEV catalog added Gogs CVE-2025-8110 for active path traversal exploits, but no direct China tie there. No mass alerts from the feds today, but patterns scream escalation: geopolitical phishing evolves to zero-day chains hitting email gateways, VMs, and Sitecore in crit infra.Defensive playbook? Patch Cisco AsyncOS now—upgrade to 15.2.0-268 or later. Huntress urges SonicWall VPN audits; Talos says block UAT-8837 TTPs like Sitecore exploits. Segment crit infra, enable MFA everywhere, and train on Venezuela lures—Mustang Panda's low-tech wins if you're sloppy. Escalation risks? If US Cyber Command's Maduro grid-kill on Jan 1st was the spark, China's riposte could spike: imagine VoidLink in US utilities amid Taiwan tensions, or APT27 "hacker-for-hire" i-Soon crews stealing election data. We're one bad zero-day from blackouts here.Stay vigilant, listeners—patch fast, lure-proof your inbox. 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.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI