Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs An IT services company, a European media group, and a South Asian government entity are among the more than 75 companies where China-linked groups have planted malware to access strategic networks should a conflict break out. SentinelLABS, the threat intel and research arm of security shop SentinelOne, uncovered these new …
Congrats to Sentinel for thwarting the attack and finding compromised sites / organisations.
I want to say that we do not know that China is 'preparing for war', but they do keep saying that Taiwan belongs to China. And the history is somewhat complicated:
"The island was annexed in 1683 by the Qing dynasty of China and ceded to the Empire of Japan in 1895. The Republic of China, which had overthrown the Qing in 1912 under the leadership of Sun Yat-sen, took control following the surrender of Japan in World War II. "
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#:~:text=The%20island%20was%20annexed%20in,Japan%20in%20World%20War%20II.
China is the block bully pushing into sovereign waters of Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia (among others).
They need to be made pariahs until they stop imprisoning people for religion or democratic demonstrations, spying on other nations and acting like an adult instead of a spoiled toddler who wants thirds for ice cream.
Remember Tiananmen Square.
No more despots.
Err and you believe that we act like adults? Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya? Jan 6, Building 7, Immigration? Boy will you get a rude awakening someday. Every nation is the same now, we are normalising around feudalism by the backdoor. You will own nothing and be happy (or dead). It's a people problem not unique to nations.
A bit like Ukraine since 2014 or even the 1945? Did I really say that? Sorry I mean to say Putin is Hitler, and Trump, and Musk, they cloned him in South America. Thank god I didn't point out the history of Palestine which is like a game of ping-pong, I'd have the Mossad, MI6 and the CIA kicking my door down.
""And then major global media organizations — maybe it's silencing certain topics or disrupting them for reporting on certain things."
I think most Western media does a good job of effectively silencing certain topics / dissenting viewpoints. If I were the Chinese hacking a Western media company it would probably to make visible to teh general public some of the stuff they currently brush under the carpet
The "west", China, Russia, whoever. The people who end up running a country often tend to be amoral power crazed narcissistic sociopaths & the great unwashed are at risk from all of them (though generally most "westerners" more at risk from "our side" than our "enemies"*)
* I have no beef with the average Chinese, Russian etc. those workers suffer under a corrupt evil government, just like we do (though certainly the Chinese seem to have a far more competent government than our shower).
The only point I would disagree with is; Chinese hacking Western media. They don't need to, most Western media is already doing a great job of destroying our societies. I often wonder if China has infilitrated the UN, WEF, WHO and consequently our intelligence and political institutions. Well, I think the WHO is a given as they're the biggest donor now. There's been a serious rot in our societies since WW2. I don't know who is really pulling the strings but it isn't the people we elect and it isn't in our best interest.
I don't know who is really pulling the strings
A team of Swiss researches has found out :
Swiss government study confirms 147 corporations 'run the world'
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
The 147 companies that control everything
The Four Companies That Control the 147 Companies That Own Everything
When China does it, they must be preparing for a conflict - implying it is a conflict China is planning on starting like say invasion of Taiwan. I'm sure the US does similar things, would they assume the US is doing it for a conflict we're planning? Or would they say the US embedding its malware inside critical systems around the world was simply "being prudent" and assume it is being done defensively in case someone else starts a conflict?
If a major conflict breaks out, I think it's a given that supply chains will be broken and the global Internet will be gone. That's what makes me so cross about stupid governments who spaff away resilience and self-sufficiency on votes. Everything is short term now because we in the West have collectively forgotten what war at home is like when the adversary is strong with global capability. It takes a long time to build that resilience in, you can't fix it inside the timescale the world changes.
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