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

Hey listeners, it's Ting coming at you live on another absolutely wild December first, 2025. If you haven't been paying attention to what's happening in the cyber world right now, buckle up because China's hacking operations just hit a level that makes previous breaches look like a warm-up round.

Let me paint you the picture. According to Mandiant, Google's cybersecurity firm, we're looking at a coordinated Chinese cyber-espionage campaign that has infiltrated US software developers and law firms with surgical precision. These aren't random attacks, listeners. This is intelligence gathering on steroids, specifically designed to help Beijing gain leverage in the trade war with Washington. The Trump administration's unprecedented tariffs sparked what we're calling a scramble, and apparently China's response was to just... hack everything.

Here's where it gets genuinely concerning. Mandiant's chief technology officer Charles Carmakal basically said these hackers are extremely active right now, and here's the kicker, many organizations don't even know they've been compromised. Some of these intrusions have been sitting quietly in corporate networks for over a year, just collecting intelligence like digital ghosts. Cloud computing firms have been hammered, and the attackers have actually stolen proprietary US software to find new vulnerabilities. It's like they're using our own blueprints against us.

But wait, there's more. A former FBI official named Cynthia Kaiser just dropped a bombshell claiming that Salt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored group, basically monitored every single American for five years straight from 2019 to 2024. AT&T, Verizon, Lumen Technologies, they all got compromised. The hackers had full reign access to telecommunications data, intercepting phone calls, text messages, and tracking movements of virtually the entire population. Kaiser straight up said she can't imagine any American who wasn't impacted by this.

The most alarming part? The US Army National Guard got breached for nine months without anyone noticing. Salt Typhoon stole network configuration files, administrator credentials, and personally identifiable information of service members. They accessed data traffic across all fifty states and at least four territories. That's not just a security incident, that's a geopolitical earthquake.

The FBI's currently investigating, but here's the real kicker listeners, cybersecurity analyst Eric Nicoletti's biggest concern is that these operatives are still in various organizations right now, completely undetected. Even with awareness growing, Salt Typhoon's been busy infiltrating over a thousand unpatched Cisco edge devices globally, compromising five additional telecommunications providers, and targeting universities like UCLA and Utah Tech.

The Intelligence Community assesses that China is the most active and persistent cyber threat to US institutions. They're literally holding critical infrastructure at risk and using cyber capabilities to shape American decision-making in times of crisis.

Thank you so much for tuning in today, listeners. Make sure you subscribe because these situations are evolving minute by minute. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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