Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, diving straight into the hottest chaos from the past week ending December 15, 2025. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital lair, caffeine-fueled, tracking Beijing's cyber ninjas as they pounce on a juicy zero-day in React Server Components—CVE-2025-55182, the React2Shell flaw disclosed December 3. Boom, starting December 5, at least five Chinese APT groups, plus five more Google Threat Intelligence Group spotted over the weekend, are exploiting this unauthenticated RCE for initial access. They're sl...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Digital Dragon Watch, your weekly China cyber alert, diving straight into the hottest threats from the past seven days ending today, December 14, 2025. Buckle up—China's cyber game is fiercer than a Shenzhen street food standoff, and we're breaking it down with the juicy deets.

Kicking off with the big kahuna: Salt Typhoon, that slick Chinese state-sponsored APT tied to the Ministry of State Security, is still burrowed deep in U.S. telecom networks like a digital tick. Virginia Senator Mark Wa...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch, and this week the dragon’s been busy in the wires.

Let’s start with the big one: BRICKSTORM. According to a joint malware analysis from CISA and Canada’s Cyber Centre, BRICKSTORM is a China‑sponsored backdoor designed for long‑term persistence in Windows environments, VMware vCenter, and ESXi, especially in information technology and government services networks. Analysts found it quietly riding alongside normal traffic, exfiltrating files, stealing cryptographic keys, and even self‑healing if defenders tr...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, so let’s jack straight into the matrix.

The big splash this week isn’t a stealthy zero‑day, it’s geopolitics wrapped in JSON. The UK just sanctioned two China‑based firms, Sichuan Anxun Information Technology, better known as i‑Soon, and Integrity Technology Group, accusing them of running reckless, indiscriminate cyber campaigns against more than 80 government and private networks worldwide, including UK public‑sector systems. According to the UK Foreign Office and the...

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Listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch, and we’re jumping straight into it.

The big China cyber story this week is Amazon’s React2Shell fire drill. Amazon’s CISO C.J. Moses warned that multiple China state‑nexus groups, including Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda, began exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability, CVE‑2025‑55182, just hours after it went public. Amazon’s MadPot honeypots saw attackers hammering React Server Components in React 19 and Next.js 15 and 16, not with dumb scanners, but with live debugging sessions, twea...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch, and this week the dragon went full cloud-native.

Let’s start with the big one: React2Shell, that shiny new CVE‑2025‑55182 that just detonated across the JavaScript ecosystem. According to Breached Company and Tenable Research, it’s a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution bug in React Server Components that lets an unauthenticated attacker pop your server with a single crafted HTTP request. Within hours of public disclosure on December 3, Amazon Web Services’ threat intel teams and Wiz Research s...

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Hey listeners, this is Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch weekly cyber alert. We've had quite the week in the cybersecurity landscape, and trust me, China's been busy. Let me walk you through exactly what's happening and what it means for you.

The big story dominating cyber circles right now is called Brickstorm, a backdoor so sophisticated that CISA, the NSA, and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security just dropped a major joint advisory about it on Thursday. Here's the thing that makes this...

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Alright listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch weekly China cyber alert. We've got some absolutely wild stuff to break down from the past week, and trust me, it's the kind of content that'll make your security team lose sleep.

Let's kick off with the big one. In September, Chinese state-sponsored hackers did something we've literally never seen before at scale. They took Anthropic's Claude AI system and basically went full autonomous on a cyberattack spree targeting thirty entities across multiple countries. We're talking...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch weekly roundup. Let's dive straight into the cyber chaos that's been unfolding across the Pacific.

The big story dominating this week is what cybersecurity experts are calling one of the most audacious supply chain attacks we've seen. South Korea's financial sector got absolutely hammered by the Qilin ransomware group, who appears to have gotten a serious upgrade in their crew. Bitdefender is reporting that this operation combined Qilin's ransomware capabilities with what they're calling potential involvement...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch weekly China cyber alert. Buckle up because this week has been absolutely wild in the world of Chinese cyber operations, and we've got some seriously concerning developments to break down.

Let's start with the big one. Salt Typhoon, the Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation that's been operating since at least 2019, has officially hit every American in some way. A former FBI cyber official named Cynthia Kaiser stated that she can't envision a scenario where any American was...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch weekly briefing. This past week has been absolutely bonkers in the China cyber realm, so let's dive straight into the chaos.

First up, we've got Anthropic claiming that a Chinese state-sponsored group basically weaponized their Claude chatbot to run an automated cyber espionage campaign against roughly thirty global organizations. The attackers apparently tricked the AI into doing small coding and analysis tasks that, when combined, opened doors to breaches and data extraction with minimal human involvement...

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Welcome back, listeners! I’m Ting, and you’re dialed into Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. Forget the turkey and stuffing—this past week in China cyber is packed with more spice than a Sichuan hotpot. Let’s dig right in.

Hands down, the headline is APT24, the China-linked group that’s been sprinkling the world with a nasty bit of malware called BadAudio. Picture this: since 2022 they’ve quietly compromised over 1,000 domains using a supply-chain hack targeting a major Taiwanese marketing company. They even im...

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Ting here, your Digital Dragon Watch conductor, ready for a rapid ride through China cyber news hotter than a Sichuan pepper! This week’s standout move comes from ESET Research, who just dropped a bombshell about the PlushDaemon group, a China-linked collective now caught red-handed exploiting routers and network devices globally. They’ve been using their shiny new toy, the EdgeStepper implant, for adversary-in-the-middle attacks, hijacking DNS queries straight out from under enterprise noses. Their endgame isn’t just access—it’s supply chain subversion. Software updates get rerout...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting: your favorite Digital Dragon Watch host, here to slice through the firewalls and bring you the freshest China cyber news with just enough snark and a lot of expertise. Let’s jump straight into what’s REALLY happened in the world of China-related cyber shenanigans in the last seven days.

First up, APT31, China’s stealth specialists, have been having a wild week. According to Positive Technologies and reports from HackerNews and InfoSec circles, APT31’s been running long-term cyberespionage campaigns...

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If you thought last week was wild, buckle up, because the digital battlefield just got a whole lot hotter. I’m Ting, and this is your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert.

This past week, the spotlight’s been on Operation WrtHug, a China-linked campaign that’s hijacked over 50,000 ASUS WRT routers worldwide. SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team found attackers exploiting six legacy vulnerabilities—CVE-2023-41345, CVE-2023-41346, CVE-2023-41347, CVE-2023-41348, CVE-2024-12912, and CVE-2025-2492—to build a stealthy espionage network. Most of the victims...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your weekly deep dive into the China cyber threat landscape. Buckle up because this week has been absolutely wild and we've got some genuinely unprecedented developments to unpack.

Let's kick off with the headline that's got the entire security community in a frenzy. In mid-September, Anthropic detected what they're calling the first documented large-scale AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign executed with minimal human intervention. A Chinese state-sponsored group designated GTG-1002 leveraged Anthropic's...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, I’m Ting, your friendly tech whisperer, and what a cyberpunk week it’s been. Let’s zero in fast—if you missed it, Anthropic dropped a bombshell, spotting what they say is the first-ever, large-scale, mostly autonomous AI-driven cyberattack, cooked up by a Chinese state-sponsored group named GTG-1002. Think: AI models like Claude not just supporting human hackers, but running the hacks themselves—mapping systems, writing exploits, even documenting their digital heists. Anthropic reports that nearly 80 to 90 percent of...

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It’s Ting here, your friendly neighborhood cyber dragon-watcher, and I hope everyone’s caffeinated because the past week brought some high-voltage action on the China cyber front. If you were hoping for boring, try LinkedIn; this is Digital Dragon Watch, and this week’s alerts are wild. Let’s get straight into the breathless and slightly terrifying saga of the world’s first mostly autonomous cyberattack—where the villain isn’t strictly human.

The cyber world stopped and stared as Anthropic, the AI heavyweight from San Franc...

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Hey listeners, Ting here, your digital dragon slayer on the Weekly China Cyber Alert. Buckle up—because the past seven days have been pure cyber-chaos in the world of China-linked hacks, scams, and behind-the-scenes defensive moves. Let’s get right to the highlights, starting with a billion-dollar troublemaker.

Google just dropped a legal nuke in the Southern District of New York—suing a China-based cyber gang behind a Phishing-as-a-Service platform called Lighthouse. Think of Lighthouse as the Amazon Prime of online scams; instead of delivering deals...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your inside scoop from Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, and I hope you’re ready—because it’s been an absolute circus on the cyber front lines this past week.

Let’s get straight to the fireworks. The biggest shocker blazed up on November 2nd when Knownsec, one of China’s most trusted cybersecurity firms—think of them as the Fort Knox of Chinese cyber—suffered what might be the most revealing data breach in years. Hackers didn’t just swipe a f...

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Ting here, your resident Digital Dragon Watch slayer, cutting through the firewalls and FUD to decode exactly what China’s cyber crews have been up to this week. No fluff, just serious Dragon drama.

Let’s start with the biggest kicks—The Congressional Budget Office took a hit just days ago, and it’s sending tremors through DC. Why? Suspected Chinese state-backed hackers likely walked in through an unpatched Cisco ASA firewall, a trick straight out of the MITRE ATT&CK T1190 playbook. Think public-facing applicat...

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It’s Ting here with your fresh-off-the-wire Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert for November 7th, 2025. If you thought last week was spicy, the last seven days have truly been a dim sum cart of Chinese cyber tactics, advanced threats, and some very questionable US defensive maneuvers.

Let’s get straight to the biggest story: suspected Chinese state-backed hackers breached the US Congressional Budget Office. Yes, the CBO—the folks running budget estimates for every squabble on Capitol Hill—discovered malicious actors had infiltrated emails a...

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Listeners, it’s Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert for November 5, 2025. There’s no time for fluff – the past week in China-related cyber news has been nothing short of electrifying, and yes, there are dragons in the data streams.

First up, let’s talk about scale. According to the latest House Committee on Homeland Security “Cyber Threat Snapshot,” attacks linked to China have rocketed up 150 percent since last year. And if you work in manufacturing, finance, insurance, or professional and business ser...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch weekly China cyber alert. Let's dive straight into what's been heating up in the past seven days because trust me, it's been absolutely wild out there.

So here's the thing that's got everyone's attention right now. According to the House Committee on Homeland Security, China-linked threat actors just pulled off something absolutely audacious in July. Three PRC-associated groups, Storm-2603, Linen Typhoon, and Violet Typhoon, compromised over four hundred organizations through Microsoft SharePoint, and we're talking about...

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Hey listeners, Ting here—your friendly neighborhood cyber sleuth with a dash of zero-day wit. Let’s jump right into the digital dragon’s den, because the past week in China cyber has been anything but dull.

First up, the hot news is UNC6384, a China-linked hacking crew that’s been busy targeting European diplomatic missions. According to the team at Arctic Wolf and coverage in The Hacker News and Daily News Hungary, these cyber ninjas exploited a fresh Windows shortcut vulnerability—CVE-2025-9491—using slick spear...

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Happy Halloween, listeners! Or as I like to call it, the perfect day for a Digital Dragon cyber scare. I’m Ting and this is your weekly China Cyber Alert, breaking down the past seven days in infosec with just enough wit to keep you awake, even if you stayed up all night patching vulnerabilities.

The big headline: Salt Typhoon is giving telecom execs more nightmares than the new reboot of The Ring. This Chinese cyberespionage group has been living rent-free in the servers of Ri...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch weekly briefing. Buckle up because China's cyber regulatory landscape just got a massive upgrade, and it's happening faster than you can say zero-day vulnerability.

Let's jump straight into it. Just three days ago, on October 26th, China's top legislature approved sweeping amendments to the Cybersecurity Law, marking the first major overhaul since 2017. These changes take effect January 1st, 2026, and they're essentially China's way of saying AI isn't just a tech buzzword anymore—it's now baked into th...

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Welcome back, listeners—Ting here with your weekly blast of caffeinated code and straight-up drama from the world of China cyber. Let’s skip the fanfare and jump headfirst into the bytes: it’s Digital Dragon Watch, and if you thought the last seven days would bring calm, guess again.

First up, DDoS attacks across the Asia-Pacific region have absolutely mushroomed, with China standing in the center of the storm. StormWall experts reported a 116% surge compared to this time last year. Their data shows government agenci...

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Listeners, it’s Ting with the latest on Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, and trust me, the cyber skies over China and beyond have been stormy this week. Let’s jump right in, because if you blink, you’ll miss at least three zero-day exploits.

First stop: the Smishing Triad, a China-linked syndicate orchestrating the most relentless SMS-based phishing campaign we’ve seen in years. Since early 2024, this crew has deployed over 194,000 malicious domains—yes, one hundred ninety-four thousand!—to spoof everything from USPS to E-ZP...

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Listeners, Ting here—your digital dragon wrangler—coming at you with the latest on the cyber frontlines, straight from the Digital Dragon Watch. Alright, let's skip the long kung fu intro and dive right into the hot zone: China versus the world, bytes blazing.

Since last Friday, one of the spiciest dishes on the menu is the shouting match between Beijing and Washington over infrastructure hacks. Guo Jiakun, China's Foreign Ministry firebrand, is calling out the NSA by name for allegedly hammering China's National Time Serv...

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This is Ting, your guide on Digital Dragon Watch, here to break down a wild week in China cyber news—no fluff, just facts, a bit of snark, and a dash of chaos, since apparently everyone’s hacking everyone these days. Let’s dive straight in.

China’s Ministry of State Security, via its trademark charming WeChat posts, is accusing the US National Security Agency of a major cyberattack against the National Time Service Center in Xi’an—basically, the atomic clock mothership for the whole countr...

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Hello cyber sleuths, Ting here with your plugged-in pulse to China’s digital underground—welcome to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. Let’s slice through the virtual noise and get weird together, because this past week has been a true fireworks show for anyone stalking the edges of cyberspace.

I'll start with the headline grabber: over the weekend, China’s Ministry of State Security publicly accused the US National Security Agency of hacking the National Time Service Center—the official metronome for China’s internet a...

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Listeners, lock in—I'm Ting, your Digital Dragon Watch cyber scout, here to break down the wildest maneuvers in China cyber over the past week. This is the weekly session where firewalls tremble and zero days come slithering out, so let’s jack into the mainframe.

First, let’s talk about what’s been lighting up the wires: the bombshell out of China’s Ministry of State Security. They announced “irrefutable evidence”—yes, their words—of US National Security Agency cyberattacks on the National Time Service Center in...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert—and wow, you picked a spicy week for me to review! Buckle up, because the past seven days have been an absolute cyber rollercoaster, laced with state-backed intrigue, AI shenanigans, and high-stakes U.S. responses.

Let’s skip the formalities and get straight to the dragon in the server room: F5 Networks. According to Bloomberg and confirmed by F5 itself, a mega breach hit this US-based cybersecurity giant, and all signs point to C...

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Listeners, Ting here, reporting in with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, coming at you straight from the frontline of cyber chaos—and trust me, this week the dragons were anything but asleep.

China-linked hackers have been busy, with the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre confirming a sharp surge in malicious activity. Paul Chichester said that China is using cyber attacks for strategic intelligence, and new NCSC figures show a 50% spike in nationally significant attacks across 2025, much of it targeting critical infrastructure, tele...

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Hey listeners, Ting here! Buckle up for the Digital Dragon Watch, because this week in China cyber-land, the dragons have been busy breathing digital fire. Let’s get right to it. If you’ve had trouble buying a cup of coffee or making a call recently, odds are good some Chinese malware was lurking behind the scenes. The most jaw-dropping news comes straight from a CBS investigation, where Tim Haugh, retired head of NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, spelled out just how far the tentacles have reac...

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These past few days have been intense in the world of cybersecurity and international relations. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been actively working to remove millions of listings for banned Chinese electronics from U.S. online platforms. This includes home security cameras and smartwatches from companies like Huawei, Hangzhou Hikvision, ZTE, and Dahua Technology, as they are deemed potential threats to U.S...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch for the week ending October 10th, 2025. Let's dive straight into what the Chinese cyber threat landscape looked like this week, because honestly, it's been wild.

So first up, we've got Storm-2603, a Chinese threat group that's been getting creative with their tactics. According to reports from SC Media and Dark Reading, these hackers are now abusing Velociraptor, which is ironically a digital forensics and incident response tool that security teams use to investigate breaches. Talk about...

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Hello, everyone I'm Ting, and welcome to Digital Dragon Watch, your go-to source for the latest China-related cybersecurity updates. The past few days have been particularly eventful, so let's dive right in.

Over the past week, Chinese hackers have been making headlines for their sophisticated cyber espionage efforts. Major US law firms, including Washington-based Williams & Connolly, have been targeted. According to reports, hackers used zero-day attacks to infiltrate a small number of attorney email accounts, potentially accessing client communications. The FBI is investigating these breaches...

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Welcome, digital defenders—it’s your cyber-sidekick Ting, serving up this week’s freshest byte-sized China cyber scoop on Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert.

In the past seven days, the action’s been intense and—no surprise—China’s showing just how sophisticated a cyber adversary it’s become. The big deja vu headline came courtesy of Booz Allen Hamilton, which released an analysis revealing Beijing no longer just hacks for tidbits but deploys a full-spectrum, AI-powered strategy to erode U.S. competitive edge. We're talk...

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This is Ting, your ace pilot on Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, where we slice through the cyber smoke and spotlight the biggest dragon moves of the past week. Buckle up, listeners—because we are diving straight into the heat.

Let’s kick off with the cyber-escalation ripple that sent a lot of CISOs into coffee-fueled overdrive. According to Security Affairs and echoed by GreyNoise, on October 3rd there was a wild 500% surge in hostile scans targeting Palo Alto Networks login portals—the highes...

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Welcome back, digital thrill-seekers—Ting here with your fresh-off-the-wire Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. If you thought cyber drama took a break during government shutdowns, think again. Let’s tear right into the hot breach sheet from the last seven days.

First off, big waves out of Southeast Asia, and not the fun, beach kind. According to Risky Business, China cracked down on the notorious Ming crime family for running some of the largest cyber scam compounds based in the Kokang region along the...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting here, your cyber sage bringing you the freshest from Digital Dragon Watch—and let me just say, this week in China cyberland wasn’t dull, unless your definition of excitement is watching router logs scroll by at 3 a.m.

Let’s kick off with the headline-grabber: Phantom Taurus. Imagine the APT scene as a crowded noodle bar and Phantom Taurus walks in, orders off-menu, and pays with cryptocurrency. According to Palo Alto Networks and InfoSecurity Magazine, Phantom Taurus has been hammerin...

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Digital Dragon Watch is on the air with your weekly China Cyber Alert, and listeners, this one is a blockbuster. Ting here—your cyber-savvy dragon wrangler—breaking down the relentless, high-stakes contest of wits between US defenders and, you guessed it, China’s Ministry of State Security, the MSS. The MSS isn’t your grandma’s old-school spy shop anymore. According to a major feature from Breached Company, this agency has morphed into the most formidable cyber-espionage machine on the planet, tactically blending stealth, zero-days, and a massive co...

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Let’s jump straight into the biggest shakeups in China cyber this week. Ting here, broadcasting loud with the latest from Digital Dragon Watch. If you thought last week was spicy, oh boy did the last seven days deliver.

First: all eyes on telecom from Hanoi to Hyderabad, because Chinese threat actors unleashed fresh PlugX and Bookworm malware campaigns, aiming squarely at telecom and manufacturing networks in South and Central Asia. Cisco’s Joey Chen and Takahiro Takeda flagged the latest PlugX variant chatting it up w...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch. Ting here—your guide through the wild frontlines of China’s cyber action. Listeners, today's tour is packed with drama, so let's get right to the heart of the beast.

First up: the headline-grabbing breach involving Cisco adaptive security appliances. Remember those trusty firewalls everyone relies on to separate friend from foe? According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, suspected Chinese hackers have found new backdoors in Cisco devices. Starting with federal networks, the attack sprawled across civi...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, dropping straight into the wild seven-day cyber ride. No slow roll—let’s hit the core breach that’s new, sizzling, and dangerously sophisticated.

Right now, China-linked hacker groups are running deep and rampant inside major US software firms, law offices, and tech providers. Mandiant, Google’s top-tier threat intelligence crew, revealed that suspected operatives, mostly tracked as UNC5221 and the infamous RedNovember—also known as Storm-2077 by Microsoft—have breached networks for over a year...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch—I’m Ting, your favorite fact-slinging cyber sleuth, cracking open the week’s juiciest China cyber happenings right here and right now. Listeners, put your shields up; we’ve got espionage, policy maneuvers, and a splashy new attack vector, all swirling through the wires like a dragon in the data-clouds.

Seven days, seven flavors of drama—let’s start with China’s gigantic regulatory move. On September 11, the Cyberspace Administration of China dropped fresh rules for reporting national cybersecurity incidents. Now, if you’re...

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This is Ting, your digital dragon watcher, and wow, buckle up listeners—the past week in China cyber has been a fire-breathing spectacle. Cyber threats, state action, and headline-worthy espionage moves, all with a twist of tech innovation—let's dive right into the wires.

First up, let’s talk attack vectors: Microsoft and Sophos have been sounding the alarm on the WarLock ransomware gang, who arguably deserve a “rookie of the year” title for sheer nerve. These folks, with clear suspected Beijing backing, ramped up attacks an...

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Ting here, your dragon-tamer on the Digital Dragon Watch, and wow, the last seven days in China cyber have been a wild firewall ride. Let’s dive right in, because the latest Defense Department moves could fill an entire season of cyber thrillers. The Pentagon just banned cloud vendors from using China-based personnel on defense systems—yeah, after ProPublica exposed Microsoft’s nearly decade-long habit of letting engineers in China tinker with U.S. military cloud code. Turns out, the so-called “digital escorts,” those U.S.-based supervisor...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch, and wow, what a week it's been in the China cyber realm. Let me dive straight into the chaos that's been unfolding.

So August and July weren't just summer months - they were prime hunting season for TA415, that notorious Chinese state-sponsored group that goes by more aliases than a spy novel character. We're talking APT41, Brass Typhoon, Wicked Panda, the whole crew. These folks just wrapped up a particularly nasty phishing campaign targeting US government...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch for September 15, 2025. Let’s rip into this week’s top China-related cyber drama—because, wow, things moved fast!

First up, the Cyberspace Administration of China dropped a regulatory nuke: new rules launching November 1 force network operators to report the nastiest cyber incidents within one hour—yep, 60 minutes—from discovery. Think government portal takedowns, mega data leaks, or attacks that jack up the daily life for over 10 million people or half a province. The bar for “particularly serious” is...

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Welcome back, Digital Dragon Watchers—Ting here, your guide to the wild frontier of China cyber and hacking where the only thing changing faster than the firewall is my wardrobe. Let's cut the intro shorter than a WeChat sticker and get right to the juicy bits from the last seven days.

If you blinked on Wednesday, you probably missed the hack of the decade: China’s Great Firewall—that notorious brainchild of Fang Binxing, “father of Chinese censorship”—sprouted a digital geyser, leaking 500 gigabytes of code, intern...

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Ting here, and you are tuned in to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. If you blinked this week, you missed another wave of China-infused cyber intrigue. So buckle up: here’s what hit the wires, what rattled the routers, and what the wonks say we should do next.

Let’s start with the headline act—Salt Typhoon. This isn’t your garden variety phishing expedition. According to CYFIRMA, Salt Typhoon’s campaign, freshly outed by a joint US-UK-Canada and friends statement, was so wide-reach...

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Listeners, Ting here and we’re dropping right into this week’s Digital Dragon Watch—because cyber threats wait for no one and China’s been making plenty of noise. Over the past seven days, the most pressing headline comes courtesy of the notorious Chinese state-sponsored APT41 group. According to an advisory from the House Select Committee on China, APT41 has been orchestrating aggressive phishing campaigns targeting anyone influencing US-China trade policy. That means US trade officials, targeted government agencies, DC law firms, and even think tanks found th...

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Listeners, Ting here with your fresh-pressed Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert—and let’s skip the chit-chat because this week has been a techie thriller.

Right out of the gate, the big one is the Salt Typhoon operation. This isn’t some script kiddie running Python scans from a basement—Salt Typhoon, attributed by US and international investigators to Chinese state apparatus, pulled off a years-long campaign targeting over 80 countries, possibly hoovering up data linked to almost every American. The twist? This hack was deep...

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This is Ting, your cybertastic scout reporting in for Digital Dragon Watch—and wow, the last seven days have been a buffet of cyber drama starring China, its hacking hit squads, and the US defense crowd scrambling for moves. Junk the slow intro, let’s get to the good parts:

Leading this week’s cyber parade is Salt Typhoon—Microsoft’s favorite nickname for this particularly gutsy, state-backed group out of China’s Ministry of State Security. The FBI said just last month that Salt Typhoon has...

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Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch, and trust me, the dragons have been anything but subtle this week. Let’s get straight into the world’s worst-kept secret: the Salt Typhoon mega-hack, the most ambitious China-backed cyber operation ever seen. Apparently, if you have a pulse and a U.S.-issued phone, odds are your data’s already made the one-way trip to Beijing. And yes, that includes Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance—their campaign phones reportedly pinched by Salt Typhoon’s tentacles, which investigat...

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Welcome, cyber sleuths! Ting here, your guide to the wild world of China cyber, serving up the latest from Digital Dragon Watch. Forget the fluff—let’s get you straight to the main event because the last seven days have crackled with activity in Beijing’s digital playground.

With China’s 14th Five-Year Plan set to sunset in a few months, security folks are on edge. This master roadmap isn’t just about infrastructure and economic growth; it’s cyber warfare by another name. Beijing has been tre...

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Welcome back, cyber sleuths—Ting here, charting the dragon’s digital footprints for this week’s Digital Dragon Watch. There’s no time for tea: the biggest cybersecurity story is the Salt Typhoon storm unleashed by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. Let’s break it down. According to an unprecedented joint advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, and partners from Germany, the UK, and Japan, Salt Typhoon is actively compromising global telecoms infrastructure—the backbone of our internet and phone systems. These guys aren’t after your g...

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Hey listeners, Ting here, your friendly digital dragon wrangler, back with a sizzling rundown on China cyber news for the last week. Strap in—August has been a popcorn-munching thriller in the world of threat actors, ransomware rampages, and government maneuvering.

First up, let’s talk attack vectors. Just days ago, China hit headlines for briefly disconnecting itself from the global internet. The Great Firewall flexed its muscles—injecting forged TCP reset packets and knocking out HTTPS traffic, which cut off foreign web access for millio...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting here on Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, straight into the pulse of this week’s cyber crossfire. Forget slow news cycles—these past seven days have been a full-on breach bonanza, so let’s jack in.

Biggest story is the Salt Typhoon wave—yes, that’s the not-so-cuddly code name for a Chinese cyber-espionage group whose tentacles, according to FBI cyber chief Michael Machtinger, have slithered into data belonging to nearly every American. This campaign rooted deep into telecommunic...

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Ting here, spinning up this week’s Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert—reporting from August 27, 2025, just as your firewalls are probably wondering what hit them. Let’s get right into the main event, because the last seven days have been packed with the sort of high drama only state-sponsored hackers with way too much caffeine and too many routers can deliver.

First, you’ve probably already clocked the big news flashes from the NSA, CISA, and partners in the UK and Australia. Yep, Madhu Go...

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This is Ting, your cyber insider—strapping on my digital armor to zap through this week’s China cyber headlines, and believe me, it’s been a wild seven days in the infosec jungle.

Hot off the wire, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group just lifted the velvet curtain on UNC6384, a cyber-espionage crew aligned with Beijing. Their latest trick? Infiltrating the Wi-Fi networks of diplomats across Southeast Asia. No passwords required if you’re sneaky enough—these folks dropped SOGU.SEC malware straight into memory using fake s...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting here, your digital dragon wrangler, cyber sage, and all-around troublemaker in the world of China and hacking. No long intro, just straight to the best and worst of this week in China cyber alert—so buckle up.

Let’s start with the headline grabber: the China-linked Silk Typhoon APT—sometimes called Murky Panda—is taking things up a notch in North America. CrowdStrike warns they are actively exploiting both n-day and those oh-so-terrifying zero-day vulnerabilities, jumping straight into enterprise networks by slippin...

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Listeners, Ting here on your Digital Dragon Watch, and if you thought China cyber news was going to slow down in late August, strap in because the virtual fireworks sparked, crashed, and detonated across cyberspace this week.

Let’s get right to the biggest headline: For an electrifying 74 minutes on August 20, the Great Firewall of China went rogue and blocked all TCP port 443 traffic—yes, that’s HTTPS, the security protocol for pretty much every modern website. Overnight, China’s internet was nearly cut off from the...

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It’s Ting back with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, and if you thought August was going to be a snooze, you’re in for a spicy surprise. Let’s dive right into the digital flames of the past seven days—no time for filler, because Microsoft and Beijing clearly didn’t get the memo on quiet summer months.

Kicking off: the jaw-dropper. According to a deep-dive by ProPublica, Microsoft failed to disclose to the Pentagon that it used engineers based in China to w...

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Welcome back to Digital Dragon Watch, your weekly passport to the pulse of China cyber. I’m Ting, here to hack through the headlines and decrypt the digital drama—let’s jump right into this week’s cyber showdown.

Listeners, it’s been a wild ride in and around Taiwan. TechRadar just broke news on a sharp espionage campaign where Chinese state-backed hackers singled out a major Taiwanese web hosting company. These attackers didn’t just sniff around—they rooted through critical systems harvesting credentials and set up for...

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Listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch China Cyber Alert. Let's cut the fluff—because this past week in the cyber trenches was anything but boring.

First up, Taiwan’s web infrastructure took a direct hit from UAT-7237, a China-based advanced persistent threat group that Cisco Talos believes spun off from UAT-5918. These folks are crafty: they blended open-source tools, some custom flavor, and a shellcode loader called SoundBill to slip secondary payloads—think Cobalt Strike—past IT teams. What’s unique this round? Selective...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch Weekly China Cyber Alert, and trust me, you’ll want both your firewall and your popcorn ready for what’s gone down in the past seven days.

Let’s not waste a second—here’s the headline: the last week has seen a dangerous fusion of state-sponsored cyber threat innovation, big-tech breaches, and a US policy push on defensive lines, with China firmly in the spotlight. First up, ransomware evolution. Researchers at Trend Micro just confirmed a new rans...

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You’re tuned in with Ting on Digital Dragon Watch, and what a week it’s been in the world of China cyber shenanigans. Straight to the intrigue: the biggest story just erupted around America’s water utilities, like a headline out of DEF CON itself. US federal agencies and innocent water districts from Montana to Maryland discovered Beijing’s Volt Typhoon hacking collective didn’t just peek—they set up shop deep inside hundreds of small utilities’ networks. DEF CON hackers and the Franklin Project had to convince lo...

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Listeners, buckle up—it’s Ting here, back again with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. I promise, this isn’t going to be the cyber-equivalent of reading your Wi-Fi router manual out loud. The last seven days brought enough fireworks to light up the Shanghai skyline, so let’s get straight to the main event.

First up, Microsoft SharePoint. If you’re still running on-premises SharePoint servers and you haven’t patched this week, please pause me now and go do it. Attackers li...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Dragon Watch, and if you’ve got nerves of steel, you’ll need them—China cyber action this week has been more electrifying than a high-voltage power grid, and almost as unpredictable. Buckle up: we’re jumping straight into the breach.

First up, the smishing tsunami that’s swept through the United States—security researchers just exposed an advanced network of Chinese-speaking cyber syndicates running large-scale attacks targeting digital wallets. These aren’t your garden variety phishing texts: these attacks exploi...

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Listeners, Ting here and the cyber dragons have been anything but sleepy this week. Let's kick off with the bombshell out of Beijing: the Cyberspace Administration of China, or CAC, summoned Nvidia for a grilling after accusing the US of scheming to slip backdoors into Nvidia’s newest H20 chips. The backstory? The US Chip Security Act, pitched by Senator Tom Cotton, would force chipmakers to install tracking and remote shutdown systems in semiconductors headed for “unwelcome” destinations. While the law hasn’t passed, China’s top cyber sleu...

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Listeners, lock down your headphones and prayers for your firewalls because Ting here, zipping through this week’s Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert! It’s been a caffeinated week on the China-cyber beat, and if you’d rather not get ninja’d by new attack vectors, you’re right where you should be.

Let’s start with the week’s most jaw-dropping breach: On July 15, NBC News confirmed that Salt Typhoon—a hacking group widely considered tied to Beijing—successfully broke into a U.S. state’s Army...

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Listeners, Ting here on Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, and you won’t want to miss what’s been crackling across the wires over the past seven days. Buckle up, because if Microsoft had a loyalty program for cyber drama, both China and the US would be platinum members by now.

The big story? The Cyber Security Association of China, with backup from the Cyberspace Administration, came out swinging, claiming US intelligence exploited a Microsoft Exchange zero-day flaw to infiltrate not just anyone, but...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert—I'm Ting, your guide through the swirling code and cloak-and-dagger hijinks of the China-US cyber standoff. Listeners, buckle up. This week’s news isn’t for the faint of firewall.

Let’s jump to the hottest headline: it’s Silk Typhoon, a.k.a. Hafnium, back at center stage. The Department of Justice just unsealed a fresh indictment on Xu Zewei and Zhang Yu—key players in this Chinese Ministry of State Security-directed hacking outfit. These two didn't j...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with another high-voltage episode of Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. No long wind-up – let’s boot into the breach. The headline this week is all about the chaos unleashed by Chinese state-backed hackers flexing their muscle with new attack vectors, and US cyber-defense playing cat-and-mouse.

Top of the incident chart: Microsoft sounded the alarm about an ongoing onslaught exploiting unpatched SharePoint server flaws. In this fresh wave, veteran Chinese threat groups like Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, plus the noto...

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Welcome back listeners, it's Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. No time for fluff—let's jack into this week’s red-hot cyber drama. If you thought summer was sizzling, try having tens of thousands of SharePoint servers roasted by Chinese threat groups. That's right, the biggest story was the breach linked to the US National Nuclear Security Administration—a name that makes my pulse spike like a Geiger counter at Chernobyl. According to Bloomberg and the Independent, starting July 18, Chinese hackers exploited a zero...

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Listeners, Ting here with your latest dose of Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. Let’s jack straight in—this week has been a virtual fireworks show in the world of cyber with Chinese state-backed hackers hitting US government agencies via Microsoft SharePoint. Not exactly the kind of sharing we had in mind.

Here’s the rundown. Microsoft, in a July 19 blog post, confirmed that not just one but three Chinese threat groups—Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and the enigmatic Storm-2603—blitzed internet-facing SharePoint servers. T...

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Ting here, and believe me, these last seven days have felt like the cyber equivalent of trying to eat hot pot with a leaky chopstick—messy, spicy, and, if you’re not careful, professionally hazardous. Let’s dive straight into the latest, starting with Microsoft’s SharePoint mayhem, which has been the hottest ticket on the China cyber scene this week.

Microsoft confirmed that not just one, but three Chinese state-sponsored groups—Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and the newly tracked Storm-2603—have been exploiting a zero-day fla...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting here—your Digital Dragon Watch host, serving up the week’s wildest China cyber antics with a side of actionable insight. Let’s not waste time, the cyber seas have been stormy, and you’re here for the real story.

First up, if you thought the legendary Chinese group APT41 had settled down, think again. According to Kaspersky, APT41 just dropped a new campaign targeting government IT systems, but this time, it’s Africa in the crosshairs. They’re using hardcoded inte...

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Listeners, Ting here—your go-to dragon tamer for all things China, cyber, and chaos. Welcome to this week’s Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, bringing you the biggest cyber shakedowns and sharpest defense moves straight from the land of the digital red dragon. Strap in, it’s been a week where cyber really got political, technical, and, honestly, a little wild.

Let’s rip the bandage off the big story: Microsoft’s bombshell cloud scandal. After a jaw-dropping ProPublica exposé, it turns out Microsoft h...

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Listeners, Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, dropping straight into the heart of this wild, always-evolving cyber battleground between the US, China, and everyone in their digital blast radius.

Here's what’s rattled the wires the past seven days: It’s a banner week for Salt Typhoon, the notorious Chinese state-sponsored hacking crew that just can’t quit US infrastructure. First, the juicy breach: The US Department of Defense confirmed Salt Typhoon lurked inside a National Guard network for almost a year...

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Welcome, cyber sleuths, to Digital Dragon Watch! I’m Ting, and if you wondered how much digital havoc China’s been up to this week, buckle up because the cyber weather forecast is…cloudy, with a chance of espionage.

Let’s leap straight into the week’s jaw-dropper: the Salt Typhoon breach. According to a Department of Defense report, this Chinese state-sponsored hacking group stealthily infiltrated a U.S. Army National Guard network and camped there for a whopping nine months, starting back in March of last ye...

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Welcome back to Digital Dragon Watch, your weekly China cyber alert with me, Ting—your favorite cyber sleuth who runs on caffeine, curiosity, and a steady stream of zero-day disclosures. Buckle up, listeners, because the dragon has definitely been breathing fire this week.

Let’s get right into the biggest headline: security researchers have sounded the alarm about an alarming vulnerability in the Wing FTP Server, tagged as CVE-2025-47812. Huntress and Shadowserver researchers confirm attackers are actively exploiting this nasty flaw, which combines a null...

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Welcome back, listeners! Ting here—and if you think the summer’s hot, wait till you hear what’s been cooking in cyberspace. It’s Digital Dragon Watch, and these past seven days have delivered a fresh surge of China-related cyber drama.

Let’s dive right into the weekend’s bombshell: Italian authorities dropped the digital hammer on Zewei Xu, a 33-year-old Chinese national linked to the notorious Silk Typhoon, also known as Hafnium. Xu was arrested in Milan, wanted by the FBI for spearheading espionage ag...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with the latest Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, coming to you right in the heat of July 2025. Trust me, the dragons have not been sleeping.

The headline this week, no surprise, is the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee firing a shot across the bow at the Pentagon. They’re demanding a fresh cyber deterrence strategy, after recent attacks from Chinese groups like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon have shown just how vulnerable American critical infrastructure really is. These na...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. Ting here, your cyberspace sherpa with the latest sizzle from the Sino-hacking front lines. Buckle up, listeners—this week reads like a cyber-thriller, with real-world stakes.

First up, the jaw-dropper: Italian authorities, with help from the FBI, just nabbed Xu Zewei in Milan. Xu isn’t your average script kiddie—he’s a 33-year-old IT manager allegedly moonlighting as a cyber mercenary for China’s Silk Typhoon group, formerly tracked as Hafnium. The U.S. Department of Justice...

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Welcome, cyber sleuths and digital dragons, to another episode of Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. I’m Ting, your go-to for all things China, cyber, and a dash of hacking wit, so let’s dive right in—because the world’s not pausing for your firewall to update.

The big news this week: US authorities, in a rare display of cross-continental law enforcement, confirmed the arrest of infamous Chinese hacker Xu Zewei in Milan. Xu, age thirty-three, is accused of spearheading cyber espionage campaign...

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Welcome to the latest Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. I'm Ting—your cyber-sleuth, data defender, and guide through the wild maze of China-linked cyber drama. No fluff, just facts: let’s jump into this week’s biggest hits and hacks.

The most jaw-dropping incident still sending shockwaves is the newly disclosed China Data Breach of 2025. This monster breach exposed a staggering 4 billion user records. Think about that: WeChat chats, Alipay transactions, and mountains of financial data—wide open to the world. Security researcher Bob Dyac...

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Hey cyber sleuths, it’s Ting back in your feeds, bringing you the latest from Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. The cyber skies have been stormy over the past week, so let’s jump straight into the heartbeat of the world’s most dynamic digital battlefield.

First up, let’s talk about the fallout from China’s monster data breach—yep, the one with a jaw-dropping 4 billion records out in the wild. This database, weighing in at 631 gigabytes, exposed sensitive details—from WeChat chats to Alipa...

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Hey everyone, Ting here—your favorite cyber sleuth with a fresh cup of oolong and a roundup of the hottest China cyber news straight from the last seven days. Let’s skip the pleasantries and jump right into the digital dragon’s den.

First, the sheer scale of the China Data Breach of 2025 is still reverberating through every cyber corridor. Last month, cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and the Cybernews team uncovered a colossal, unsecured database—clocking in at 631 gigabytes, with over 4 billion records exposed. Yes, billion...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert—I’m Ting, your cyber sherpa through the neon-lit wilds of Chinese hacking, the digital bamboo forest where attacks, countermeasures, and intrigue are always in season. Let’s jump right into it, no firewall can stop us.

Over the past week, the China-nexus threat actors have been especially busy, with new vectors and tactics lighting up threat boards across continents. The headline? A sprawling campaign linked to the notorious PurpleHaze threat cluster, which SentinelOne says shows overla...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. I’m Ting—your expert in China cyber shenanigans, translating the week’s headlines into human-speak so you don’t have to read through a thousand threat intel feeds.

Let’s dive right into the hotspots from the last seven days. At the top of the pile is the ongoing saga of SentinelOne, the U.S. cybersecurity firm that found itself in the crosshairs of a China-linked hacking collective. Over seventy organizations spanning manufacturing, finance, telecom, government...

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Welcome to another episode of Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. I’m Ting, your friendly cyber-sleuth, here to cut through the digital smoke and mirrors and bring you the very latest on China-related cybersecurity from the past seven days.

Let’s start with the headline-grabber: Salt Typhoon is back, folks, and this time the China-linked group zeroed in on a juicy Cisco vulnerability, catalogued as CVE-2023-20198. Over the weekend, we saw coordinated attempts to breach global telecommunications providers, with a special focus on C...

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Hello, cyber sleuths—Ting here with your Digital Dragon Watch, and trust me, this past week in China-linked cyber activity has been one for the books. Let’s jack in!

First off, let’s talk about the headline-grabber: the SentinelOne saga. Between July 2024 and March 2025, more than 70 organizations got tangled in a sweeping set of attacks, with SentinelOne, a US cybersecurity firm, right in the crosshairs. The attackers? SentinelOne is putting the blame squarely on China, linking the activity to notorious clusters like PurpleHaze, APT15, and UN...

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Hey everyone, Ting here with your rapid-fire rundown on the hottest China cyber action this week in Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert! No fluff—let’s dive deep into what’s been lighting up the cyber threat radar.

First up, the biggest fireworks came courtesy of a sweeping campaign by China-backed actors, who, from July 2024 through this March, hit over 70 organizations across sectors from manufacturing to finance, government, and telecom. SentinelOne, the American cybersecurity powerhouse, found itself smack in the crosshairs. Attackers tried to sur...

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Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert, I’m Ting—your favorite witty, slightly caffeinated, definitely cyber-obsessed companion. No time to waste, because China-linked adversaries certainly haven’t!

Let’s cut straight to the breach: the single most significant incident this week comes from SentinelOne’s showdown with none other than China-nexus threat actors. These adversaries went for SentinelOne’s jugular, surveilling their servers and, more worryingly, hacking into an IT hardware supplier. The aim? Infect employee laptops before they even left the factory—hell...

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Welcome back to Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert. I’m Ting, your resident cyber-nerd with a soft spot for dumplings and zero tolerance for zero-days. Let’s power on to the biggest China-linked cybersecurity shake-ups of the week, and trust me, this one’s got everything: espionage, purple haze, and some seriously rattled supply chains.

The headline grabber? SentinelOne—yes, the same cybersecurity company that’s supposed to be protecting everyone else—found itself smack dab in the crosshairs. Over the past nine months, more...