Beijing's Backdoor Blitz: How China Hacked Our Routers While We Slept and Why Silicon Valley is Packing Up cover art

Beijing's Backdoor Blitz: How China Hacked Our Routers While We Slept and Why Silicon Valley is Packing Up

Beijing's Backdoor Blitz: How China Hacked Our Routers While We Slept and Why Silicon Valley is Packing Up

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

Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth on all things China hacks and digital showdowns. Buckle up, because this past week in US-China CyberPulse has been a non-stop thrill ride of defenses ramping up against Beijing's sneaky probes. Picture this: I'm hunched over my triple monitors in my dimly lit war room, caffeine-fueled, as fresh intel floods in from Google Threat Intelligence Group reports dated February 10th, exposing China-nexus crews like UNC3886 and UNC5221 hammering the US defense industrial base. These jokers are all about edge devices now—think routers and IoT gadgets—as sneaky backdoors into aerospace giants and supply chains. GTIG says they've outpaced even Russia in sheer volume over two years, stealing R&D secrets faster than you can say "firewall breach."

But hold onto your keyboards, because Washington's not sleeping. The ML Strategies 2026 Policy Outlook dropped on February 10th, spotlighting the December 2025 Executive Order "Ensuring a National Policy for Artificial Intelligence" that's got agencies turbocharging AI chip export controls. Bipartisan push for the AI OVERWATCH Act aims to choke off Nvidia Blackwell chips to adversaries like China, while January's Section 232 tariffs slap imports framed as pure national security. Defense procurement's accelerating too—stockpiling critical inputs to bulletproof our industrial base. And get this: DOJ's Data Security Program regs, highlighted in Gibson Dunn's February 10th webcast slides, are slamming the door on "covered data transactions" with China, including data brokerage and vendor deals. Companies are straight-up relocating ops from Shanghai back to Silicon Valley to dodge those CISA security hoops.

Private sector's flexing hard. FBI's Operation Winter Shield podcast from February 11th names names—Integrity Technology Group in China got called out for brokering access in the Flack's Typhoon hack, part of Assault Typhoon's mega-espionage blitz. Brett Leatherman from FBI warns of this "blended threat" where PRC state actors team with criminals for that whole-of-society cyber punch. Meanwhile, CISA 2015's info-sharing act got reauthorized through September 2026 per Inside Privacy on February 11th, keeping those liability shields up for threat swaps between feds and firms.

Internationally? Leaked docs via Recorded Future News reveal China's "Expedition Cloud" platform rehearsing attacks on South China Sea neighbors' grids—replicas of real networks for practice runs. US allies are waking up, with Asia-Pacific buddies building anti-China cyber walls, as Just Security notes. Emerging tech? Google's flagging ORB networks for stealth recon, and FBI pushes joint advisories with IOCs to hunt these ghosts.

Whew, from policy hammers to tech shields, we're turning the tide. Stay vigilant, patch those edges, and watch your personal emails—APT5's been phishing defense folks with fake job lures.

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