Ting Spills the Tea: Volt Typhoon Lurks While Uncle Sam Punches Back and China Drops Beast-Mode Cyber Laws cover art

Ting Spills the Tea: Volt Typhoon Lurks While Uncle Sam Punches Back and China Drops Beast-Mode Cyber Laws

Ting Spills the Tea: Volt Typhoon Lurks While Uncle Sam Punches Back and China Drops Beast-Mode Cyber Laws

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 This is your US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates podcast.

Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to gal for all things China cyber chaos and hacktastic defenses. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, dissecting the US-China CyberPulse from the past week leading up to February 9, 2026. China's not playing nice—Volt Typhoon's still lurking in US critical infrastructure like communications, energy, and Guam's naval bases, prepping for Taiwan flare-ups, as the International Institute for Strategic Studies warns. They're hiding in plain sight, grabbing network diagrams for future disruptions, thumbing their nose at UN Norm 13(f) that says no messing with public service critical infra. Sneaky, right? But Uncle Sam? Punching back with Defend Forward gusto.

Over on the policy front, China's Cybersecurity Law just got a beast-mode upgrade on January 1, via the Cyberspace Administration of China and NPCSC tweaks—slapping fines up to RMB 10 million on critical info operators who slack, plus AI governance rules tackling black-box algorithms and model misuse. TechPolicy Press reports they're filing deep synthesis AI algorithms and standardizing TC260 specs for AI chips with secure boot and access controls. Meanwhile, the US FTC's griping about zilch enforcement coop with China on ransomware—mere chit-chat at a 2024 DC conference, per their fraud report. They're begging Congress to lock in the USA SAFE WEB Act for cross-border hunts.

Private sector's stepping up too. CISA dropped Binding Operational Directive 26-02 on February 5, forcing federal agencies to ditch all end-of-support edge devices in 12 months—think routers and firewalls ripe for exploits. No more low-hanging fruit for groups like UNC3886, who zero-day'd Singapore's Singtel, StarHub, M1, and Simba Telecom last year, as Singapore's Cyber Security Agency detailed in their CYBER GUARDIAN op. Sygnia ties 'em to Fire Ant tooling on VMware ESXi.

Internationally? US-South Korea's tight via the 2024 Strategic Cybersecurity Cooperation Framework and Trump-Lee summit—countering North Korea but eyeing China, says Stimson Center. Yet, America's pulling back from global cyber orgs, per Just Security, hurting intel shares. And leaked docs show China rehearsing attacks on neighbors' infra, via The Record.

Emerging tech? US mulls federal preemption on AI and chip export bans like Nvidia Blackwell to China, per Mondaq outlook. It's all about cost imposition in the rumored new US cyber strategy—deter or disrupt, baby!

Whew, the pulse is racing, listeners. Stay vigilant, patch those edges, and train your teams FTC-style against phishing. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.

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