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

Call me Ting—your favorite cyber sleuth with a knack for sniffing out the drama behind the digital curtain. The last two weeks? Oh, buckle up. Silicon Siege is the only way to describe China’s tech offensive on the US. And trust me, it’s been a wild cyber ride.

First up, the Department of Homeland Security just dropped a massive warning: Chinese tech firms are flooding the US with smuggled signal jammers. Yeah, those are the gadgets that can knock out GPS, cell service, and Wi-Fi—kryptonite for everything from delivery drones to rescue teams. Homeland Security’s bulletin, released on June 18, says the volume and sophistication of these jammers surged, threatening everything from airports to Wall Street trading floors. I spoke to Maya Tomlinson, a supply chain expert at MIT, who bluntly told me, “We’re seeing attackers go after the arteries of our digital economy—supply chains, networks, and the tiny chips nobody sees but everybody needs.”

But wait, there’s more. Let’s talk about Salt Typhoon—or as the Recorded Future nerds call them, “RedMike.” These Chinese-backed hackers had quite the field day with unpatched Cisco devices. Their campaign? Targeting over a thousand network edge devices worldwide, including two major US telecoms. They wormed in using vulnerabilities CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273, gaining root access and, essentially, the keys to the kingdom. Salt Typhoon didn’t stop at telecoms—they also nosed their way into UCLA and California State University. A telecom industry insider, Sean Rivera, told me, “If you control the network edges, you control the information flows. That’s espionage gold.”

Industrial espionage is in turbo mode, too. Federal officials traced a network of Chinese front companies dangling fake job offers to recently laid-off US tech workers. The carrot? Fat salaries. The stick? Unwittingly handing over sensitive proprietary data during “interviews.” The Justice Department has already indicted a dozen Chinese hackers, and according to attorney Lisa Chen, “We’re playing whack-a-mole. For every front company shut down, two more pop up.”

Strategic implications? Huge. Besides snatching trade secrets, these attacks are all about prepping the battlefield—disrupting US supply chains and infrastructure to blunt any American response if China makes a move on Taiwan. The Soufan Center’s latest brief spells it out: Beijing’s cyberattacks aren’t just theft—they’re rehearsal for economic and even military disruption.

So, what’s next? Experts warn more attacks on supply chains and fresh rounds of zero-day exploits. The consensus: the US needs tighter controls on tech imports, rapid patching, and, as Tomlinson says, “banning hope as a cybersecurity strategy.” As for me, I’ll be here, laptop at the ready, waiting for the next breach report to land in my inbox. The siege is far from over.

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