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 This is your Silicon Siege: China's Tech Offensive podcast.

So, you want the latest scoop on China’s digital maneuvering? Well, pull up a chair—I’m Ting, your cyber-savvy host, and the past two weeks have been a masterclass in digital chess. The board: Silicon Valley and beyond. The pieces: Chinese state-backed hackers. The stakes? America’s technological edge.

Let’s start with Salt Typhoon—also known in the cloak-and-dagger world as RedMike. This crew has turned exploiting vulnerabilities into an art form. Just days ago, Salt Typhoon took aim at telecom providers, popping open Cisco edge devices like they were fortune cookies. Their exploit of choice? Good ol’ CVE-2023-20198—a privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco’s IOS XE software. This isn’t just a “patch and forget it” situation. Insikt Group’s analysts tracked over a thousand compromised devices worldwide, including American telecoms, ISPs, and even universities like UCLA and California State University. Salt Typhoon’s reach underscores the persistent risk: critical infrastructure isn’t just being probed; it’s being infiltrated, and the attackers are after everything from internal emails to customer data.

If that weren’t enough, the supply chain isn’t safe either. A big-name U.S. organization—Symantec’s keeping the name sealed—felt the pinch when a China-based threat actor, with ties to the notorious Daggerfly group, went on an espionage spree. This wasn’t smash-and-grab; this was patient infiltration. The attackers moved laterally, compromised Exchange Servers, and sucked up emails and sensitive data—a full raid, not a smash-and-dash. Daggerfly has a track record from Taiwan to Africa, so this isn’t their first international rodeo.

Let’s not forget the shadowy world of industrial espionage and the ever-present threat to intellectual property. According to CSIS, Chinese-linked front companies have been targeting recently laid-off U.S. federal workers with bogus recruitment ads, aiming to lure insiders and harvest credentials—a blend of classic social engineering and cyber subterfuge.

Now, why should all this keep tech execs up at night? For one, strategic compromise of telecom networks means more than dropped calls—it’s about control over data flows and surveillance at scale. Supply chain infiltrations threaten to inject malicious code or spyware deep into U.S. technology products long before they hit the end user. As for intellectual property, the theft of R&D blueprints can shave years off China’s tech development—at America’s expense.

Industry voices like Bradley T. Smith at the Treasury warn that these attacks aren’t just persistent; they’re evolving, targeting both government and private sector with increasing sophistication. The future? Expect deeper supply chain attacks and more aggressive recruitment of insiders, as China seeks not just to compete, but to leapfrog U.S. tech leadership.

That’s your Silicon Siege update. Stay patched, stay paranoid, and join me next week—because in cyber, the only constant is escalation. – Ting

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