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Cyber Pressure Cooker Whistling Loud: China's Hacks Hit Telecom, Govs, and Beyond! Patch Fast or Be Pwned

Cyber Pressure Cooker Whistling Loud: China's Hacks Hit Telecom, Govs, and Beyond! Patch Fast or Be Pwned

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

I'm Ting—your cyber oracle with a dash of sass, streaming live from the digital trenches. Let’s not waste time with boring intros; today is June 28, 2025, and we are once again on Red Alert: China’s Daily Cyber Moves. Buckle up, because the cyber pressure cooker is whistling loud.

The past few days have been nothing short of electrifying in global cyberspace. Taking center stage is Salt Typhoon, the ever-industrious Chinese actor with a taste for network edge devices. The big fireworks started brewing June 25, when the FBI and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued an urgent advisory: Salt Typhoon was caught exploiting a catastrophic Cisco IOS XE flaw, CVE-2023-20198, with a perfect 10.0 CVSS score. They breached at least three routers at a major Canadian telecom—not named, but you know who you are—using the access to fish around for sensitive configuration data. They even set up GRE tunnels, effectively siphoning traffic and turning those routers into permanent listening posts. Think of it as planting a bug right in the main conference room of your network.

And before you ask—yes, the U.S. is right in the blast zone. Recorded Future’s report shows the same flaw hitting U.S., South African, and Italian service providers. Salt Typhoon doesn’t discriminate. Their reconnaissance can turn into full-on data grabs overnight, leveraging any foothold to breach even more systems.

Yesterday’s emergency bulletins from CISA and the FBI highlighted this as an extremely active threat. The message: patch Cisco devices immediately, audit all configs for sneaky GRE tunnels, and comb through logs for unusual traffic, especially exfiltration to Asia-Pacific IP ranges.

Now, what’s a cyber chess game without a few extra pieces? Enter PurpleHaze and ShadowPad—two China-backed clusters who recently set their sights on… wait for it… security firms themselves. SentinelOne just rebuffed an attempted breach: in early 2025, ShadowPad malware surfaced in an IT vendor tied to SentinelOne. The campaign—dating back to July 2024—targeted everything from South Asian governments to European journalists, and yes, more than 70 critical infrastructure organizations worldwide. We’re talking finance, energy, healthcare, telecom—a regular grab-bag of high-value targets.

Events are moving fast. If the escalation continues, we could very well see attempts to disrupt major backbone infrastructure or even U.S. municipal systems, as Chinese-speaking hackers have already probed local government platforms. In the most extreme scenario, China could use these persistent footholds for broader disruption—to rattle public confidence or pre-position for strategic “surprises.” Space and cyber now go hand in hand in the U.S.-China rivalry, and even satellite networks are on the target list.

So, today’s Red Alert? Patch all edge devices, hunt for tunnels, and don’t assume this is just recon. The threat is active and creative. Stay sharp—because in this game, surprise is their favorite weapon, and forewarned is your best defense.

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