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

Listeners, Ting here, and what a wild week in the cyber shadows it's been! Picture this: it’s July 9, 2025, and if you’re on the Red Alert channel, buckle up, because China’s cyber playbook is being rewritten in real time.

First, the bombshell. Just days ago, Xu Zewei—a name you’ll want to remember, trust me—was nabbed in Milan, Italy, at the airport. Xu isn’t just any keyboard jockey; he’s allegedly a heavy hitter for Silk Typhoon, also known as Hafnium, the Chinese state-sponsored group infamous for that massive Microsoft Exchange hack back in 2021. According to the US Justice Department, Xu, age 33, spent years working for Shanghai Powerock Network Co. Ltd., spearheading attacks that zeroed in on COVID-19 research at major American universities. His timeline reads like a bad fever dream: February 2020, Texas research university breached. Three days later, Xu’s Chinese handler sends him after the email accounts of top virologists and immunologists. Xu gets in and hands over vaccine secrets—meanwhile, the world is desperate for answers about the virus’s origins.

Now, Silk Typhoon didn’t stop at medical research. By late 2020, they pivoted and pounced on zero-days in Microsoft Exchange, popping open law firms, government agencies, and universities. CISA and the FBI had to issue emergency alerts—this wasn’t just routine espionage. The tools? Web shells for remote control, relentless scanning for unpatched systems, and really creative pivots into supply chains. Microsoft flagged this group’s shift to hacking remote management tools and cloud platforms, hitting supply chain providers, RMM vendors, and managed service providers. If you’re a defense contractor, hospital system, or even a law firm, you were in the blast radius.

And don’t think this is old news. Just last month, Canada’s top telecom, Rogers, got whacked by Salt Typhoon—a related Chinese group that’s been going global, targeting communications backbone providers from the UK to Myanmar. They even allegedly breached comms data involving high-level American politicians during last year’s White House race. And the tech Achilles’ heel? An old vulnerability in Cisco routers from 2023. If your Cisco gear isn’t patched, you’ve basically rolled out a red carpet for these crews.

So, what are the active threats today? It’s a two-front war: Silk Typhoon is still out there despite Xu’s arrest, with dozens of operators on deck, and Salt Typhoon’s telecom play is all about tapping global comms to seize worldwide information supremacy. Last week, CISA’s bulletins put every federal and critical infrastructure operator on edge, with urgent calls to patch, double up on cloud monitoring, and hunt down web shell footprints.

Possible escalation? If China’s teams keep up at this pace, we could see more destructive attacks—think paralyzing supply chains, disrupting government operations, maybe even timed moves during an international crisis. Xu’s capture is a victory, but leaders at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group warn me this won’t slow the machine. For now, US agencies are in DEFCON "patch-or-perish" mode, but the Chinese state’s network of cyber-contractors marches on—motivated, resourced, and evolving.

Thanks for tuning in, cyber warriors. Subscribe, stay patched, and remember, in this digital cold war, complacency is the biggest vulnerability. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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