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A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory. "Anyone who is a target of China-nexus cyber …

  1. VoiceOfTruth Silver badge

    Let's give a big hand for the diversion of attention

    Meanwhile the USA hacks everywhere. Through American made equipment. With American back doors.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Remind me again

    Didn't the US military get "hacked" by someone who just looked at windows servers that you were supposed to not notice ?

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hindsight is 20-20

    Should have known this back in the day before letting that disgusting country join the WTO in 2001.

    Greed ('massive' China market, cheap Chinese sweatshops) clouded your judgement.

    China is still a communist country, and its economy is technically still centrally planned.

    It is the nature of the scorpion to sting, ask the hapless frog that helped it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

    1. ecofeco Silver badge

      Re: Hindsight is 20-20

      LOL, it was WESTERN countries that INSISTED on sending factories to China for cheaper labor and higher profit margins.

      They fucked themselves.

  4. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Hmmm? What to Do whenever Pandora’s Box is Broken Wide Open ‽

    Because the number of these covert networks is so large, with new botnets regularly developed and deployed and existing ones shutting down, sometimes because of law enforcement disruption efforts, "a description of all known covert networks in detail, including how they are constructed and how they communicate, would immediately be out of date - and for most network defenders would not be practically useful," the agencies say.

    Quite the contrary methinks. Such would be virtually helpful and extremely revealing to all interested in exercising safe and secure, and ideally failsafe secure communications operations, with that however also presenting the likelihood of the emergence of future difficulties and intractable problems for the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and 15 other government agencies from the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and Sweden because, as those spooky agencies themselves admit in the paragraph immediately following the one quoted above ......

    .... most covert networks of compromised devices use the same basic set up. Understanding this generalised structure can aid researchers and defenders by helping them to understand which part of a network they may have found, and how to defend against it. ..... Defending against China-nexus covert

    networks of compromised devices

    Base understandings of how anything properly works in worlds in which the truth is feared and denied general public knowledge because of its easy ability to decimates presently run, current running realities, the revelations of which can simply and directly and accurately target and existentially threaten both shadow remote virtual and shady physically humanised leaderships, are always expected and accepted as being subjected to the likes of D-Notice sanction and all manner of desperate chaotic and even deadly psychotic covert and illegal clandestine actions ...... which simply be The Death Throes of Just Another Failed Regime.

    Is such behaviour natural in humans or alien and inhuman and unnatural ‽ Your worlds might like to know.

  5. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Fools'r'us ..... Idiots on Parade

    Have you any idea what China and the East and its allies imagine and know, whenever the fears and exploits that the West champion as possible, and proclaim to be as a result of concerted Eastern enemy activity, are untrue????

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