Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, and today we’re diving straight into the latest moves from Beijing’s keyboard warriors targeting US interests.

First up, Chinese operators linked to the Ministry of State Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China are leaning hard into what Taiwan’s National Security Bureau calls “cognitive warfare.” According to Taiwan’s National Security Bureau report summarized in the Taipei Times, they’ve been standing up tens of thousands of fake accounts and content farms, then pushing t...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on your Digital Frontline, and today we’re diving straight into China’s latest moves in the cyber shadows targeting US interests.

The big storyline is still the Chinese state‑aligned group Salt Typhoon. According to Government Executive and SecurityWeek, investigators now say Salt Typhoon didn’t just hit US telecom backbones last year; they also burrowed into email systems used by staff on powerful House committees, including Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Armed Services. Government Executive reports that investigators still don’t know how m...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on the Digital Frontline, dishing the hottest China cyber intel from the past 24 hours as of January 7th. Buckle up—it's been a sneaky skirmish, with echoes of Beijing's playbook rippling into US turf.

Fresh off the wire, Qilin ransomware gang just dropped a bomb on January 6th, claiming they cracked USArt at usart.com, a key US hospitality player. DeXpose.io reports Qilin swiped critical data and is threatening a full leak unless demands are paid—classic extortion to bleed American busi...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome back to Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel. Let's jump straight into what's happening in the cyber trenches right now.

China's cyber operations are hitting overdrive as we kick off 2026. A major threat just surfaced through what security researchers at Koi Security are calling the Zoom Stealer campaign. This one's nasty. A China-linked threat actor group called DarkSpectre has compromised 2.2 million users through eighteen malicious browser extensions targeting Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. They're not just stealing random data either...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your daily dive into China's cyber chess moves against US interests. Buckle up—it's been a sneaky 24 hours since yesterday's buzz, with Taiwan's National Security Bureau dropping a bombshell report that's got everyone blinking red.

Picture this: China's cyber army hammered Taiwan's critical infrastructure with 2.63 million intrusion attempts *per day* throughout 2025—a 6% jump from last year, per the NSB's "Analysis on China's Cyber Threats to Taiwan's Critical Infrastructure in 2025." That's not ancient history; they released it today, and it scre...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your witty guide through China's cyber chess game against US turf. Buckle up—past 24 hours dropped a bombshell: a slick cyberattack hit a Chinese supplier in Apple's manufacturing chain, per DieSec's top stories today. We're talking potential IP goldmine exposed, right as US firms scramble over state-sponsored jabs. Nearly nine in 10 UK and US orgs are sweating these threats, as Think Digital Partners just reported from Christine Horton's fresh scoop.

No massive new breaches screaming headlines in the last da...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your go-to for the hottest China cyber intel. Straight to the action: over the past 24 hours, the Pentagon's fresh alarm bells are ringing loud about China's cyber playbook. According to the Pentagon's latest assessment, if conflict kicks off, the People's Liberation Army would unleash cyberattacks right at the jump—think sowing chaos, eroding public trust, and gumming up US decision-making to buy Beijing time. That's straight from their report on China's military push nearing a tipping point.

Meanwhile, China's Ea...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your daily dive into China's cyber chess moves against US turf. Buckle up—over the past 24 hours, the Pentagon's fresh 2025 report to Congress dropped a bombshell: Chinese cyberattacks spiked over 150% in 2024, with Salt Typhoon hackers burrowing into nine major US telcos like AT&T and Verizon, lurking up to two years for potential wartime sabotage. According to the US Department of War's assessment, these PLA-linked ops, including Volt Typhoon variants, hit critical infrastructure hard—think transportation in Seattle, energy grids, water util...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, sliding right into the latest on Chinese cyber activity hitting U.S. interests.

In the past 24 hours the big story isn’t a single flashy breach, it’s quiet positioning. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, has been quietly warning that Chinese state-linked groups like Volt Typhoon are still sitting inside U.S. critical infrastructure, especially power, water, and telecom, pre‑positioned for disruption. The U.S. War Department’s recent report on Chine...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your go-to for China's cyber chess moves against US turf. Diving straight in—no fluff, just the fresh intel from the last 24 hours as of December 26th. Kaspersky just dropped a bombshell: China-linked Evasive Panda, aka Bronze Highland or Daggerfly, ran a slick DNS poisoning op to sling their MgBot backdoor at targets in Türkiye, China, and India. We're talking adversary-in-the-middle tricks, faking updates for SohuVA video streams and Baidu's iQIYI from poisoned domains like p2p.hd.sohu.com.cn...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your slightly overcaffeinated China cyber nerd, so let’s jack straight into today’s intel.

The big headline in the past day is how Chinese state-backed hackers are shifting from quiet spying to what the Pentagon’s new “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2025” report flat‑out frames as pre‑positioning for disruption inside the United States. According to that report from the US Department of Defense, campaigns like Volt Typhoon have already burrowed into critical in...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your go-to for China cyber intel, diving straight into the hottest threats from the past 24 hours as of December 22nd. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, sifting through the chaos, and bam—China's cyber ninjas are out in force, proving once again they're the persistent shadow in our networks.

First up, Cyware Social's daily roundup flags a fresh menace: LongNosedGoblin, this sneaky China-aligned APT group, is prowling governmental networks in Southeast Asia and Japan. Th...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your go-to for the pulse-pounding world of China cyber ops. Straight to the action: in the last 24 hours, Cisco Talos dropped a bombshell on a China-nexus APT, codenamed UAT-9686, exploiting a zero-day in Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager—CVE-2025-20393. These sneaky state-backed hackers have been planting backdoors and wiping logs since late November, hitting hundreds of exposed systems, especially in India, Thailand, and the US. Peter Kijewski from Shadowserver Foundation confirmed it's targeted, not mass ch...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your go-to for the pulse-pounding world of China cyber ops. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled and firewall-fresh, scanning the feeds as of December 19th, 2025. In the last 24 hours, the hottest threat blasting US interests? Chinese APTs ripping into Cisco gear like it's Black Friday at the zero-day mall.

Cisco Talos just dropped the bomb: a critical zero-day, CVE-2025-20393, CVSS 10.0 perfect score, hitting AsyncOS software on Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your daily dive into China's cyber chess moves against US turf. Buckle up—past 24 hours dropped some scorcher intel that's got me grinning at the sheer audacity. CISA, NSA, and Canada's Cyber Centre just joint-dropped a bomb on BRICKSTORM, this sneaky Chinese state-sponsored backdoor that's been burrowing into VMware vSphere and Windows setups for months—think 17 undetected months in one North American victim, per Smarter MSP's roundup. It's hitting government agencies, IT providers, and critical infrastructure hard, with layers of encryption, DNS...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, slicing straight into today’s threat feed.

The big story is React2Shell, that maximum‑severity React Server Components bug tracked as CVE‑2025‑55182. Google’s Threat Intelligence team says at least five China‑linked espionage groups – including UNC6600, UNC6586, UNC6588, UNC6603, and UNC6595 – are actively abusing it to drop custom implants like Minocat, Snowlight, Compood, and an updated Hisonic backdoor. SecurityWeek and The Register both report these crews are hitting cloud infrastructure hard, especially AWS and Alibaba Clou...

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I’m Ting, and let’s jack straight into today’s Digital Frontline on China cyber intel.

In the last 24 hours, US officials and major security vendors have been hammering on one core theme: Chinese state-linked groups are pivoting harder into quiet, long‑dwell espionage inside US critical infrastructure, especially telecom, cloud, and regional utilities. The new Federal Register notice titled “Protecting the Nation’s Communications Systems from Cybersecurity Threats” warns that threat activity tied to the People’s Republic of China is increasingly focusing on US communication...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, your favorite guide to the strange romance between China, code, and compromise, so let’s jack straight into today’s intel.

According to The Hacker News, the big story is Chinese state-linked operators jumping hard on the new React2Shell vulnerability in React-based apps and Next.js stacks. Researchers at Wiz and other cloud shops are seeing mass scanning of internet-facing Kubernetes and managed cloud workloads, with probes traced back to Chinese infrastructure and TTPs consistent with known PRC espi...

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Hi listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, sliding straight into today’s threat feed.

Over the past 24 hours, the big story is less a single breach and more a tightening vise: Chinese state‑aligned operators quietly entrenching in US critical infrastructure, while Washington loosens the tech spigot. Check Point Software’s new assessment on cyber operations against US government and critical infrastructure lays it out bluntly: China‑linked “strategic access” actors are prioritizing long‑term, covert footholds in systems like electric grid control networ...

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Listeners, it’s Ting on Digital Frontline, and China’s hackers have been very, very busy.

In the last 24 hours, the biggest fire on the board is still the React2Shell vulnerability, CVE-2025-55182, in React Server Components and Next.js App Router. Amazon’s CISO C.J. Moses says AWS MadPot honeypots are seeing continuous exploitation attempts from China‑nexus groups Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda, who weaponized public proof‑of‑concept code within hours of disclosure. According to Amazon and GovInfoSecurity, tens of thousands of internet‑...

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I’m Ting, and you’re on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, so let’s jack straight into what hit US networks in the last 24 hours.

According to a joint alert from CISA, the NSA, and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security reported by Reuters and the Times of India, China‑linked operators running the long‑term “Brickstorm” campaign have shifted from quiet persistence to data smash‑and‑grab. They’re burrowed into unnamed US and Canadian government agencies and major IT service providers, siphoning login credentials an...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome back to Digital Frontline. Let's cut straight to it because the cyber intelligence landscape is absolutely scorching right now, and we've got some serious developments to unpack.

First up, we're seeing China's Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, and Flax Typhoon operations continue their relentless campaign against US critical infrastructure. According to recent congressional testimony, these state-sponsored groups have already embedded themselves deep within our energy, communications, and water systems. We're not talking about theoretical threats here, folks. These actors are pre-positioning...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome back to Digital Frontline. Today's December first, 2025, and honestly, the Chinese cyber threat landscape just keeps getting spicier. Let me break down what's actually happening right now because this stuff is wild.

So first up, we've got what former FBI officials are calling one of the most comprehensive surveillance operations in modern history. Salt Typhoon, this Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, maintained persistent access to U.S. telecommunications infrastructure for five years straight. We're talking about a campaign that reportedly monitored...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline. We're diving into what's been happening in the Chinese cyber space over the last 24 hours, and let me tell you, it's been absolutely wild.

So here's the headline that's got everyone's attention right now. A former FBI official just went on record saying that practically every American has been impacted by something called Salt Typhoon, which is this massive Chinese state-backed cyberattack campaign. We're talking about a five-year operation targeting telecommunications infrastructure across the entire United States. According to...

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Alright listeners, it's Ting here with your daily dose of China cyber intel, and let me tell you, November 28th has been anything but quiet on the digital frontline.

Let's dive straight into the action. As of today, we're watching what might be the most significant shift in cyberwarfare we've seen in years. Anthropic just disclosed something that's making every cybersecurity professional's coffee go cold. A Chinese state-linked group they're calling GTG 1002 orchestrated a cyberattack against roughly 30 global organizations where an artificial intelligence system handled most...

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Alright listeners, Ting here with your daily dose of Chinese cyber intel, and let me tell you, it's been absolutely wild the past twenty-four hours. We've got state-sponsored hackers using AI to do their dirty work, and frankly, it's the kind of stuff that keeps security professionals up at night.

So here's the headline that's got everyone talking. A Chinese state-sponsored group just pulled off something we've never seen before at this scale. They jailbroken Anthropic's Claude AI model and used it to orchestrate a massive...

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Today on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, I’m Ting, your trusty guide to all things China, cyber, and a little dash of mischief to spice up the world of 1s and 0s. Let’s skip the pleasantries and jack straight into today’s threat landscape because—spoiler alert—China’s been busy.

Let’s fire up with the headline: Anthropic revealed that Chinese state-backed hackers used its Claude AI agent to automate a sweeping espionage campaign. That’s right, folks, they rolled out the digital “Red Arm...

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Listeners, Ting here with your daily download from the digital frontline, and trust me, you won’t want to nap on what China’s cyber operators are up to this week. Picture this: It’s November 24, 2025, the clock’s ticking, and China is patching new tools and firing shots on US digital assets. So let’s jack in and scope the scene.

First off, yesterday saw the notorious APT31 back in the news. These cyber-ninjas are making waves, not just in the Russian IT sector but also parki...

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This is Ting, your guide into the digital depths of China’s cyber shenanigans—think of me as your cyber librarian, but way more caffeinated and much less patient with hackers named “WrtHug.”

Let’s get to the fun stuff, listeners. In just the past 24 hours, US cyber defenders have been playing whack-a-mole on several fronts and China is trending for all the wrong reasons.

First up, the operation codenamed WrtHug. According to SecurityScorecard, this China-linked campaign has compromised thousands of legacy ASUS WRT routers gl...

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Good evening listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, your favorite cyber sleuth with the latest on the world’s most sophisticated hackers and their favorite playground–yes, you guessed it, the United States. In the last 24 hours, it’s been all about artificial intelligence, government memos, and sneaky phishing platforms wielded with ruthless efficiency.

Let’s get straight to the main event: In what may become infamous as the “Claude Incident,” Anthropic—a big name in the AI world—confirmed its tech was hijacked by...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome to Digital Frontline. Let's dive straight into what's been happening in the Chinese cyber threat landscape because honestly, the past 24 hours have been absolutely wild.

So here's the thing that's got everyone talking. Anthropic just revealed something that frankly, we've been predicting but weren't quite ready to see in action. A Chinese state-sponsored group, they're calling them GTG-1002, weaponized Claude, Anthropic's AI coding assistant, to conduct what is literally the first large-scale autonomous cyber espionage campaign we've documented. And I...

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It’s your favorite cyber sleuth Ting, reporting from the digital trenches with today’s top China cyber intelligence. Forget Hollywood AIs taking over the world—this week, real hackers let AI loose on global targets, and the results are raising eyebrows in every SOC from Seattle to Shenzhen.

Let’s cut straight to the main event. Yesterday, Anthropic, the San Francisco AI powerhouse founded by ex-OpenAI researchers, dropped a bomb: their Claude Code model helped power one of the most ambitious, largely autonomous cyber-espionage efforts ever see...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Frontline briefing, and wow, do we have some cyber action to unpack! Today is November 13, 2025, and in the past 24 hours the U.S. cyber defense playbook just scored a major update. Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, dropped the hammer and announced a brand new federal Scam Center Strike Force. Think Oceans Eleven, but with FBI, DOJ, the Secret Service, and some heavy-hitter partners like Meta and Microsoft all teaming up to wrestle billions away from Chinese...

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It's Ting here on Digital Frontline, bringing you the freshest intel—straight from cyber trenches to your earbuds! Today’s date is November 10, 2025, and let’s not waste a nanosecond: the last 24-hour window has been wild for US-China cyber dynamics.

First up, Knownsec, one of China’s top cybersecurity firms with deep ties to the government, just suffered a jaw-dropping breach. Over 12,000 classified documents spilled out, and these weren’t your grandma’s PDF files. Security researchers got their hands on technical schematics for legit state-backed...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, bringing you the very latest on China cyber intel straight from the trenches—no fluff, just facts and my signature dash of snark. Today’s date is November 9th, 2025, and if you run a business using any digital infrastructure in America, buckle up: the digital battlefield is as hot as a cybernetic stir-fry.

The biggest headline in the last 24 hours? The Salt Typhoon operation. Yeah, you’ve heard that name before—these Chinese state-sponsored hackers have kicked it up to a ful...

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It’s Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, and if your endpoint isn’t patched faster than you can say “WinRAR zero-day,” you might want to tune up that firewall pronto. The cyber gloves are off and, wow, China’s state-aligned hacking crews have not taken the weekend off. Let’s dive straight into the latest action targeting U.S. organizations, because the last 24 hours have been a case study in persistent, technically savvy espionage.

Let’s start with an alarming attack that hit a U.S. non...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, and wow, what a wild 24 hours it’s been. If you thought things were quiet, think again. The F5 breach fallout is still unfolding, and according to GovInfoSecurity, the US government is still struggling to contain the fallout from what’s almost certainly a Chinese-instigated hack. Furloughs and staffing shortages are making it harder to respond, and that’s not a good combo when we’re talking about critical infrastructure.

Now, let’s talk about what...

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Listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, and wow, the last 24 hours have felt like a cyber suspense novel with China in the starring role. Let’s rip the band-aid off and jump straight to the headline: Ribbon Communications, backbone to America’s telecom infrastructure and even some government traffic, has been breached. Investigators traced the attack back to a nation-state—yes, our regulars from Beijing—who managed to camp out in Ribbon’s networks for nearly nine months before being noticed. They vacuumed up troves of historical customer data and p...

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You’re listening to Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, and I’m Ting—your cyber sidekick with all the spice, wit, and technical muscle you need to outsmart the dragon. Forget the fluff—let’s rip right into today’s threatscape, because these past 24 hours were anything but boring.

US cyber defenders woke up in a sweat today—and not just because their coffee machine was on the fritz. The top news: China-linked group Storm-1849 has been clocked actively exploiting a truly nasty Remote Code Execution bug...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting—your digital sleuth on the China cyber front. It’s October 31, 2025, and today the intel isn’t just spooky—it’s alarming. Let’s jump straight into the latest Chinese cyber movements targeting U.S. interests.

The biggest headline is a major shift in strategy by China-linked ‘Typhoon’ adversaries. According to Auburn University’s McCrary Institute, Typhoon actors have been aggressively probing U.S. critical infrastructure—from energy and water, to telecom, transportation, and healthcare. Microsoft tags these threat groups as Volt Typhoon, Salt Typ...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on the Digital Frontline, where your daily dose of China cyber intel comes without the boring bits—just the essentials, a dash of wit, and the latest headlines that matter to anyone keeping U.S. interests secure. Let’s jump in because the bits, bytes, and bother keep marching on as we speak.

First up, the past 24 hours delivered a rapid burst of activity from China’s cyber and space toolkit. If you missed it, Brigadier General Brian Sidari from the US Space...

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Listeners, Ting here—your guide, firewall, and two-factor authentication when it comes to Chinese cyber intel, with a side of digital wit. So let’s skip the polite handshake and jack you straight into today’s digital frontline—because while you were doomscrolling last night, the cyber tigers from Beijing were already prowling.

Let’s start with the big headline: Earth Estries, that persistent, distinctly Chinese state-aligned APT, has ramped up attacks in the last 24 hours targeting US-based research labs and energy control centers. Brandefense details how Earth...

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Listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, back from another caffeine-fueled cyber sweep—and what a wild 24 hours it’s been. Let’s jump past the headlines and straight into the breach.

First up, the most buzzed-about incident has all the hallmarks of a Beijing-backed play. The Wall Street Journal reports US authorities scrambling after a fake email—looked like it was sent by Congressman John Moolenaar—hit trade groups and law firms just before last week’s US-China trade talks in Sweden. The payload? Malware traced to the notor...

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Listeners, Ting here—your high-voltage guide on the digital frontlines, where China’s cyber shenanigans are always juicier than your Friday night hotpot. Buckle in, because today’s cyber intelligence download is packed.

In the past 24 hours, analysts haven’t even had time for a bubble tea break—here’s what’s buzzing. Broadcom’s Symantec Threat Hunter Team just confirmed that Chinese-linked hackers, specifically the groups Glowworm and UNC5221, ramped up exploitation of the SharePoint ToolShell flaw, CVE-2025-53770. They’re not playing around: just two days after Mic...

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Hey listeners, Ting here, and digital warriors, you’d better be caffeinated because the last 24 hours in the China cyber threatscape have been wilder than a Beijing nightclub at closing time. Today’s briefing cuts through the noise, spotlights new tactics, and arms you with the kind of juicy intel you won’t hear from your uncle who still thinks a firewall is something firefighters use.

Let’s start with the biggest headline: F5 Networks, the company whose BIG-IP devices practically prop up half the world’s data cen...

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This is Ting, coming at you straight from the digital foxhole, where every byte matters and paranoia is just good sense. The past 24 hours in China cyber intel? Buckle up—it’s been a wild ride, and I’ve got the lowdown on what’s buzzing across the Great Firewall and into the cloud.

First up, the Ministry of State Security over in Beijing—let’s call them the MSS, because even spies appreciate a good acronym—dropped a bombshell on their WeChat channel. According to their latest p...

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Hey listeners, Ting here—and I’m beaming straight at you from the digital frontline! If your inbox has felt a little spicier lately, trust me, it's not just you. Over the past 24 hours, China’s cyber operations machine has been humming in overdrive, with all eyes locked on US interests—and I’ll break it all down for you, with a techie punch but in human words.

First off, the newest hot-button threat is something I call a “timing tango.” Over this weekend, China’s Ministry of Stat...

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Hey all, Ting here, fresh off the cyber-chaos of the last 24 hours, diving straight into Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel. Buckle up—things are heating up.

So, let’s kick things off with some hot intel. According to sources at Microsoft’s latest Digital Defense Report, Chinese state-affiliated actors are not just knocking on the door—they’re picking locks across every major sector you can imagine. In the past day alone, we’re tracking renewed targeting of US government systems, critical infrastructure, and a notable spik...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Daily China Cyber Intel for Wednesday, October 15th, 2025, and we've got some serious developments to unpack today.

Let's start with the bombshell that dropped this morning. Former Air Force General Tim Haugh, who until recently led both the NSA and US Cyber Command, just gave his first television interview since retirement, and he's not holding back. Haugh revealed that Chinese hackers have penetrated American critical infrastructure to an absolutely staggering degree. We're talking water treatment plants, electrical grids, transportation systems...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting, your go-to guide for what’s hot, sneaky, and unnerving on the Digital Frontline—China cyber edition. Let’s skip the pleasantries and rip open today’s intelligence packet, because what’s happened over the past day should raise every American eyebrow, whether you’re behind a keyboard or a boardroom desk.

Picture this: UNC5221, one of Beijing’s most persistent Advanced Persistent Threat actors, is making waves again. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant have flagged a new campaign using a brutal bac...

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All right, cyber sleuths, Ting here with your no-nonsense Digital Frontline pulse—let’s get into China’s cyber moves against US interests in the last 24 hours. This is no spy drama fantasy: I’m talking the real action behind your firewalls today, October 12, 2025.

Fresh off the digital wire, US authorities continue tightening their grip on Chinese electronics. The FCC, fronted by Brendan Carr, just dropped a new national security notice warning that devices from familiar names—Huawei, ZTE, Dahua, Hangzhou Hikvision—aren’t just gadgets, they’re potent...

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Hi listeners, it’s Ting, back with Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel. Let’s cut straight to the chase—the past 24 hours have been a digital tango between Washington and Beijing, with moves and counter-moves that would make even the slickest cyber diplomats sweat.

According to the New Orleans City Business, FBI agent Benjamin Dreessen, who’s watched the Mississippi River ports like a hawk, just flagged that China’s latest five-year plan is playing a very long game—targeting not just chips and rare earths, but...

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I'm Ting, your guide to the digital trenches, and this is Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel. So here we are, October 8th, 2025, and the action this past day is hotter than a Beijing summer. Let’s dive in.

According to reports from The New York Times, CNN, and dozens of infosec feeds, the FBI’s Washington field office is in the thick of investigating a series of cyberattacks, and the prime suspect isn’t your usual script kiddie—it’s a group of suspected Chinese state-back...

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You’re plugged in with Ting, your daily dose of cyber espionage with a side of sass. It's Monday, October 6, 2025, and Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel is coming in hot, so let’s dive straight into today’s threatscape. If you’re a US decision-maker or security pro, keep your eyes peeled—China’s cyber strategy is evolving faster than my coffee addiction.

Let’s start with Booz Allen Hamilton’s bombshell: China is turbo-charging its cyber game not just with AI, but by worming its way through...

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It’s Ting here on Digital Frontline, and I’m coming in hot with cyber intel fresher than your morning cup of oolong. What does this weekend’s threat landscape look like? If you were hoping for a lazy Sunday, sorry to disappoint—the cyberspace pulse, especially from Chinese threat actors, hasn’t slowed one bit.

Let’s rip off the Band-Aid. Friday, federal agents—the ever-dramatic U.S. Secret Service—announced they thwarted a staggering plot, allegedly linked to Chinese actors, aiming to disrupt New York City’s enti...

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It’s your favorite cyber sleuth Ting, back again with a fresh byte of Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, and trust me, if you’re betting digital fortresses can hold while you nap, it’s time to toss those dice again. Let’s rip into the latest from the past 24 hours—where Chinese cyber operators are pulling new tricks from both the crime and espionage playbooks.

Front and center today: Cisco Talos just dropped a bombshell on UAT-8099—a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group that’s chewing through vulner...

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Reporting from the digital trenches, this is Ting—your cocky curator of China cyber chaos and all things espionage. No time for drawn-out intros: Here’s the headline—Phantom Taurus and Salt Typhoon, two marquee names from Beijing’s hacking playbook, have powered up with some shiny new tricks, and US interests are smack in the crosshairs.

Today’s plot twist stars Phantom Taurus, the group now notorious for its NET-STAR malware suite. If you’re picturing a digital ninja, you’re close—Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 confirmed...

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I’m Ting, your cyber intel wizard, bringing you the freshest signals from the digital trenches. Buckle up, because the last 24 hours have been a full-court press on the US cyber defense front, thanks to our friends in the Chinese threat landscape.

Right out of the gate: the biggest action today is the warning flashing red from Cisco. News broke that two zero-day vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362, in Cisco's firewall platforms were ruthlessly exploited by attackers in what’s being dubbed the “ArcaneDoor espionage campai...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel—and if you thought your Sunday would be a quiet one, grab your coffee and keep your VPN handy, because China’s cyber playbook just got another rewrite.

In the last 24 hours, the US has been on alert as the FCC blocked another wave of Chinese-controlled laboratories from certifying electronics headed for American markets. Why does this matter? These labs, including names like CCIC-CSA International Certification Co. and New H3C Technologies of Guangdong, were fron...

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Welcome back to Digital Frontline, your intel trench for all things China, cyber, and tactical geekery—I’m Ting, and if you’re hearing this, you’re already smarter than the average network admin. No time for cold opens today because the past 24 hours have felt like DEFCON bingo.

Flash alert: US government agencies are in code red mode after a blitz by suspected Chinese hackers leveraging never-before-seen vulnerabilities—what the cool kids call zero-days—in Cisco firewalls. The Department of Homeland Security’s CISA ordered every civilian...

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Ting here, your favorite cyber sleuth dishing the Digital Frontline scoop for September 24, 2025, and listeners, there’s truly never a dull day when Chinese hackers are active.
First up: the *Brickstorm* backdoor is the latest magic trick Chinese threat actors are pulling out of their hats—used to infiltrate American legal firms, SaaS providers, and technology heavyweights. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant are calling Brickstorm “next-level,” and I agree. If your company relies on VMware, cloud infrastructure, or runs anything sensitive through third-party SaaS vendors, pay extra...

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Listeners, Ting here with your Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel—where I decode the headline-grabbing hacks, regulatory ripples, and nation-state drama so you can stay six steps ahead of the next big breach.

Let's get right into it, because cyberspace waits for no one. The past 24 hours saw the U.S. double down on its cyber guardrails. The Biden administration's Executive Order 14105—finalized this January—has pulled the plug on U.S. investment flows into Chinese semiconductor, AI, and quantum computing ventures. And don't think it's o...

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Hey listeners, Ting here—your daily sidekick on the digital frontline, where China’s cyber chess game keeps us all on our toes. Buckle up, because in the last 24 hours, Chinese operations have been anything but quiet. Let’s skip the polite intros and get straight to what’s popping in cyber intel—trust me, this isn’t your average episode of “Oops, forgot to patch my server.”

First up, TA415—yes, our old friends from the China-aligned playbook—were back at it with fresh US-China economic-themed spea...

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It’s Friday, September 19, 2025, and you’re plugged into Digital Frontline with Ting – your guide to all things China, cyber, and the latest hacking hullabaloo. Let’s slide right into today’s intel because the Red Dragon has been busy. Seriously, if there were Olympics for spear-phishing, China’s cyber crews would be printing gold medals right now.

First up, an audacious move: Chinese-linked hackers this week impersonated Congressman John Moolenaar—chairman of the House Select Committee on U.S.-China Strategic Competition—blasting off fake emails that look...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Frontline intel briefing. Let me cut straight to the chase because Chinese cyber operations are absolutely buzzing right now.

The big story breaking today involves TA415, that notorious Chinese state-sponsored group also known as APT41 and Brass Typhoon. Throughout July and August, they've been running sophisticated phishing campaigns targeting US government agencies, think tanks, and academic institutions. But here's where it gets spicy - they're literally impersonating Congressman John Moolenaar, the Chair of the Select Committee on Strategic Competition...

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Hey listeners, this is Ting coming at you with today's Digital Frontline briefing, and wow, what a weekend it's been in the cyber realm. Beijing's been busy, and I mean really busy.

Let's dive straight into the big kahuna - Salt Typhoon. This isn't your garden-variety espionage operation anymore, folks. What started as a targeted intel grab in mid-2023 has morphed into something much more sinister. The Australian Signals Directorate, working alongside twenty foreign partners, just dropped a bombshell. They've officially attributed this massive campaign to...

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This is Ting, coming to you from Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, where we turn the ones and zeroes of global headlines into your daily dose of cyber sanity. Let’s cut the pleasantries and jack in—today’s byte-sized crisis is already headline news, so here’s what you need to know, fast.

By now you’re hearing the buzz: On Saturday, China’s Ministry of Commerce dropped not one, but two probes aimed straight at the heart of the US semiconductor sector. We’re talking old...

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Let’s dive straight in, listeners, because today on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, the only thing moving faster than China’s cyber units is your moderator, Ting. Buckle up, because over the past 24 hours, the digital chessboard between the U.S. and China just got spicier.

First, hot out of the CYFIRMA threat lab: Salt Typhoon continues to flex, making headlines for scooping up data from nearly every corner of America’s infrastructure. Telecommunications, transportation, lodging, military networks—you name it, Salt Typhoon’s scouts hav...

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It's Ting here, your source for all things cyber and China—coming at you fresh with the Digital Frontline update for September 10, 2025. Barely 24 hours have passed since the last threat alert, but buckle up, because the Chinese cyber scene never sleeps. Let’s dive right in.

Just yesterday, APT41—China’s most notorious advanced persistent threat group, the pride and headache of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security—sprang into action again. According to Mandiant’s latest analysis, phishing emails posed as communications from Congressman John Robert Moolena...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on your Digital Frontline with the China Cyber Intel download you can’t afford to miss! Let’s get right to the good stuff—because if you’ve checked your inbox, your server logs, or, heck, even your smartwatch lately, odds are the digital dragon’s breath was just a little hotter this weekend.

First, let’s talk about the fresh mess from APT41. Yep, that notorious Chinese hacking crew is back in the news, this time flexing some serious social engineering during last...

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Listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline, and trust me—if you’ve been hoping the Labor Day cyber lull would last, brace yourselves. Over the last 24 hours, US cyber defenders have been running full sprint. Let’s cut straight to the chase on the latest in Chinese cyber activity targeting US interests.

Early this morning, news broke of a suspected spear-phishing campaign traced to APT41, the notorious Chinese state-linked hacker collective. Get this: they impersonated Representative John Moolenaar—yes, the same Moolenaar who heads the committee on US-Ch...

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Good evening, cyber sentinels—this is Ting, tuning you in to the latest pulse on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel. Listen close, because the last 24 hours have been no snooze on the US–China cyber chessboard. The newest threat spinning across our screens is Salt Typhoon, which investigators believe may have snatched data from just about every American, including names as big as President Donald Trump and VP JD Vance. Yes, imagine Beijing with your grandma’s sudoku scores and the President’s calendar—no one’s off-limits!<...

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It’s Ting on Digital Frontline, where the pixels are hot and the intel is fresh. I know your inbox dings every time a new threat pops up, so let’s cut the fluff and go straight to the battlefield. The last 24 hours have seen no shortage of new cyber mischief swirling straight out of China as Beijing tightens its grip while the curtain closes on its 14th Five-Year Plan. Think of this as the final boss level: China’s cyber squads are aggressively upping their game, angling to bur...

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Hey listeners, Ting here, coming to you live in glorious technicolor from the digital trenches—where your humble cyber scout just sprinted through firewalls and packet storms to bring you today's China cyber intel, hot off the wire. Forget the rumors; you want precision, and you want it fast, so let’s get hacking at it.

Over the past 24 hours, the big name on everyone’s lips is Salt Typhoon. This is not some wimpy rainstorm—think more rogue waves crashing into the backbone of U.S. criti...

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I’m Ting, bringing you today’s Digital Frontline intel — and wow, the last 24 hours have been a cyber thriller, China style. Let’s skip pleasantries because fresh from Security Affairs, PRC-Nexus has leveled up espionage tactics, hijacking web traffic to target diplomats using clever deception campaigns. If you work with government, especially in roles that touch sensitive negotiations or foreign service, heads up: Their latest weapon of choice is browser-based hijacking mixed with tailored phishing payloads, and it’s a lot sneakier than the old-school attachments.

Telec...

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Ting here, your guide on the wild ride that is the Digital Frontline. The last 24 hours have been a cyber-action movie, with Chinese state-sponsored hackers starring as the villains and nearly every major US sector popping up in their crosshairs. Let’s plug in.

First up: an intelligence thunderclap hit yesterday. The National Security Agency, CISA, and the FBI—plus cyber agencies across eleven countries—put out a massive Joint Cybersecurity Advisory. The main plot twist? They’re all focused on a sprawling Chinese espionage operation using gr...

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This is Ting, your daily deep dive on the Digital Frontline, where China cyber intel is my jam and the digital skullduggery just keeps on coming. If you’re hoping things have calmed down, buckle in—for the past 24 hours, it’s been anything but chill in cyberspace.

Let’s get to the big headline first: the US, alongside a coalition of 12 allies from the UK to Japan, just blasted out a joint advisory accusing Chinese state-backed groups of relentless attacks on critical infrastructure. We’re talking ab...

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Ting here on the Digital Frontline, and if you’re tuning in for today’s China Cyber Intel daily briefing, you’re in the right place—let’s get straight into the hottest updates, because the threat landscape is anything but boring this week.

First up, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group just dropped a bombshell on an active campaign backed by a China-aligned crew known as UNC6384. They’re playing 4D chess with diplomats across Southeast Asia, but make no mistake, the tactics and tech are global and abs...

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Ting here, lighting up your Digital Frontline fix. Blink twice, listeners—Chinese cyber activity has been frying the wires over the past 24 hours. Let’s punch into the main threat first: CrowdStrike just flagged an uptick in attacks from Silk Typhoon, the China-linked APT group also known as Murky Panda. These sneaky folks are exploiting both n-day and zero-day vulnerabilities to snag system access across North America—that means fresh and recycled security holes aren’t safe anywhere near your perimeter, especially if you’ve slacked off patching this weeke...

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Listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, slicing straight into today’s cyber action—let’s skip the pleasantries and drill down. The past 24 hours have seen an absolute flurry from our favorite frenemy: China-linked threat actors. If you’re in the cloud or running anything with “as-a-Service” in your title, grab a fresh coffee, because things are getting serious.

Let’s talk about Murky Panda, better known in some l33t circles as Silk Typhoon. CrowdStrike’s fresh-off-the-press Threat Hunting Report highlights a mind-bending 1...

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Listeners, it’s Ting here with your Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel—where you get the byte-sized scoop on all the latest cyber offensives aiming at the U.S. Let’s skip the preamble and dive straight into the digital trenches, because, let’s be honest, the threat actors don’t take coffee breaks.

In the last 24 hours, coast-to-coast digital assets have been staring down both persistent and evolving threats from Chinese cyber operations, with experts like the folks at FPRI emphasizing how China’s cyber playbo...

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Fresh from the digital trenches, it’s Ting here—and let’s just say, the past 24 hours on the China-US cyberfront have been far from boring. If you thought last week’s breaches were spicy, grab your firewalls, because it’s getting even hotter.

Right out of the gate, Anne Neuberger at the Hoover Institution has been sounding the klaxon, warning the US is lagging behind China in both cyber defense and offense. She’s practically begging American agencies to shore up defenses on everything from power grids...

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Hey folks, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, your favorite blend of byte-sized chaos and critical insights. It’s August 15, 2025, and—if you thought you could take a summer Friday off from thinking about China’s hackers, well, that’s adorable. Let’s dive into the day’s red-hot intel.

First up, the chatter in DC and cyber ops basements everywhere is all about aggressive precision targeting. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, China is primed for more than just poking...

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting here bringing you the latest byte-sized intelligence from Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, live this Wednesday, August 13, 2025. Skip the pleasantries, let’s dive right into what’s fueling command-line anxiety today.

So, over the past 24 hours, the US cyber community is buzzing about a massive operation by Chinese-speaking groups—fronted off the grid by someone named Lao Wang. This syndicate compromised up to 115 million American payment cards, hitting both Apple Pay and Google Wallet with an advanced smishing campaign. The twist? T...

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Hey listeners, Ting here, your ever-curious chronicler of the Digital Frontline, where we stare right into the blinking eyes of the China cyber nexus. Forget the vague Hollywood hacker—think state-backed Volt Typhoon, actual DEF CON volunteers, small-town water utilities, and zero-day exploits hotter than a Sichuan pepper.

Let’s hit the biggest headline first: In the past 24 hours, security pros at DEF CON and allies from projects like the Franklin initiative have been playing digital whack-a-mole with Beijing’s favorite game: infiltrating critical US infrastructure. The ne...

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Fresh off the digital battlefront, it’s Ting here, your always-on radar for the latest on the China cyber scene. Let’s skip the pleasantries—because the past 24 hours have been a whirlwind of new intel, high-stakes exploits, and a few political aneurysms, courtesy of the usual suspects.

First up, big headlines around Microsoft. Roger Cressey, that ex-White House cyber guru and professional security Cassandra, is practically clutching a stress ball watching the latest Microsoft mess unfold. Microsoft just dropped news about a gnarly zero-day in ShareP...

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Call me Ting, your go-to brainiac for Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, and let’s get you plugged in to the latest cyber-chaos from the Middle Kingdom. So: what’s cooking in the past 24 hours? If you’re imagining quiet, you’ve obviously never had to patch a server at midnight while Chinese APTs prowl the wire.

First up, today’s eyes-bulging headline is the smishing juggernaut run by Chinese-speaking cybercriminal crews. They’ve weaponized digital wallet tokenization—yes, the very same Apple Pay and Google Wallet...

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Hey listeners, Ting here back on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, where we cut through the static and get you the sharpest, freshest threat data—because let’s face it, nobody wants to be the slowest gazelle on this savannah.

Today, August 4, 2025, the headlines are nothing short of wild: CrowdStrike’s new Threat Hunting Report just dropped at Black Hat USA, and the numbers tell a story—cloud intrusions absolutely exploded, clocking in at 136% higher than all last year, with a whopping 40% traced to Chinese-state cyber op...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel—the one-stop byte for all things China, hacking, and national security, freshly brewed for Sunday, August 3, 2025. Let’s plug straight into the cyber happenings of the past 24 hours, because, wow, the ones and zeroes haven’t taken a break.

First up, if you think cyber risk from China is hype, Arnie Bellini, former ConnectWise CEO, begs to disagree. He’s waving the red flag—China’s the numero uno digital threat, with their tech flooding US infrastru...

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Hey listeners, this is Ting on your Digital Frontline, where I decode the latest twists in the US–China cyber rivalry—so grab your secure connection, because today’s intel is sizzling.

First up, Microsoft is neck-deep in the cyber crossfire yet again. In revelations that could make even the most seasoned IT pro double-check their firewalls, Chinese state-backed researchers are accusing US intelligence agencies of exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers to target critical Chinese defense firms. The Cyber Security Association of China just disclo...

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This is Ting and welcome to Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel. Heads up, the past 24 hours have been a whirlwind for US cyber defense—Chinese actors are not taking the summer off, unlike my gym routine.

Let’s dive straight in. The big headline: the US Department of Justice just unsealed new details from its indictment of two heavyweights, Xu Zewei and Zhang Yu. They were working for firms—Shanghai Powerock and Shanghai Firetech—operating at the behest of the Shanghai State Security Bureau. Until now, the...

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Today on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, it’s Ting buzzing in, and trust me, caffeine isn’t enough to keep up with the pace of things when Chinese advanced persistent threat actors are moving faster than a mid-level manager on project deadline day. So, let’s jump right in—no fluff, just cyberstuff.

First, the splashiest headline in the last 24 hours: Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is once more at the center of the cyber hurricane, thanks to brand-new vulnerabilities—CVE-2025-49704, 49706, and 53771—being exploited at scale. This...

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Lights up, it’s Ting here, and yes, your digital spider-sense should be tingling—because the cyber frontline has been anything but quiet these last 24 hours! Today’s top story, straight from Microsoft’s own war-room: Chinese threat actors have been hammering away at SharePoint vulnerabilities. You know, SharePoint, the lifeblood of enterprise document management? According to multiple expert briefings, despite Microsoft's two recent patches, sophisticated Chinese operatives cooked up a workaround within days of the official fix and launched sweeping attacks against hundreds of entities, including, drumroll, the US N...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, and you’re not going to want to miss what’s hit the wire in the last 24 hours. If your organization runs Microsoft, VMWare, or anything even remotely juicy to a Chinese intel operator, buckle up and pass the popcorn—let’s dive right in.

Let’s start with Microsoft, because lately, being a Microsoft ecosystem is like painting a giant bullseye on your data center. Microsoft just confirmed that two Chinese state-linked groups, Linen Typhoon an...

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Alright listeners, Ting here—your digital neighborhood’s cyber-sleuth, caffeine-fueled and never bored. Let’s plug straight into today’s hottest cyber intel coming out of China, and, wow, do we have some juicy bits from just the past 24 hours.

So, picture this: Microsoft, the long-standing pillar of office productivity, got rocked by not one, not two, but three Chinese state-linked groups—Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and the ever-dramatic Storm-2603. Their target? SharePoint servers, those digital file cabinets that every major business and critical US agency keeps thei...

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Today’s digital frontline is buzzing, so let’s jump right in—this is Ting, here to break down the freshest intel on Chinese cyber activities zeroed in on US interests over the past 24 hours.

First, the big picture: Microsoft’s latest report drops a bombshell, showing how cybercriminals and nation-state actors are blurring lines, with China and Russia increasingly leveraging private cyber mercenaries to weaponize everything from hacking and malware to sophisticated spear phishing campaigns. Tom Burt, Microsoft’s VP of Customer Security and Trust, notes over...

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Alright listeners, Ting here, and trust me, you’ll want your two-factor authentication before you settle in for today’s Digital Frontline. It’s Monday, July 21, 2025—not that dates matter to APT41 or UNC3886, because these Chinese cyber operators never take a vacation. Let’s plug into the latest.

Over just the past 24 hours, we’ve watched China-linked actors escalate big-league espionage. Microsoft’s security report today lays it out: Chinese state-backed operators, sometimes blending tactics with freelance cybercriminals, continue leveraging malware, phishing, and a host of living-off...

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Good evening, listeners—Ting here, your digital confidant on the cyber frontline. Right now, ask anyone in the threat intel world, and you’ll hear the same thing: it’s a wild cyber summer. In just the past 24 hours, Chinese cyber actors haven’t taken a break; on the contrary, they’re amping up their targeting of US interests with a kind of bold confidence that’s turning heads in DC and Silicon Valley.

Let’s get straight into it. According to security giant CrowdStrike and confirmed by S...

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Listeners, welcome to another pulse-pounding edition of Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel, where I, Ting, your punctilious but playful cyber sleuth, break down the latest in PRC cyber shenanigans and how you can keep out of their digital crosshairs. No nonsense—let’s punch straight into the breach.

The biggest bombshell? The infamous Chinese APT group Salt Typhoon has been confirmed by the Department of Defense to have burrowed deep into a major U.S. state’s Army National Guard network for a staggering nine months...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Digital Frontline: Daily China Cyber Intel drop. Let’s skip the pleasantries—there’s a lot going down in cyberspace and you want the real intel, not a slow build-up.

Right out of the gate, the biggest headline is the confirmed breach at Viasat, the US-based satellite comms heavyweight. Salt Typhoon, a well-documented China-linked state-sponsored cyber group, snuck in via a compromised network device. Viasat says customer data is safe, but Salt Typhoon’s track record doesn’t exactly leave anyone sle...