Panda-monium: China-backed cyber crew spoof Congressman to dig for dirt on US trade talks

Chinese state-aligned online attackers are back at it, targeting US trade policy wonks as Washington and Beijing spar over economic ties. Proofpoint said this week that it had spotted a Chinese state-backed crew TA415 – also known as APT41, Wicked Panda or Brass Typhoon – using carefully crafted phishing emails to compromise …

[VoiceOfTruth]

Nice

>> Chinese state-aligned online attackers are back at it, targeting US trade policy wonks as Washington and Beijing spar over economic ties.

And you think the USA has ever stopped? Washington wanted this trade war, not China. Don't forget that. And don't pretend it is anything other than that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Nice

With the US "plan" being batshit crazy flip-flopping and total self immolation, we can only thank China for their efforts to help us all, and wish them success.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

If the Chinese do find out the American's secret trade position

Could they tell the congressman?

Because the current policy seems to be whatever the cymbal crashing monkey inside a certain brain thought that day.

It's hard to spy on trade policy when the trade policy on say Australia changes because a reporter asked him a question

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: If the Chinese do find out the American's secret trade position

trade policy is going to include a glaring exception for GPUs once Sam Altman slightly alters the output of GPT-5

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: If the Chinese do find out the American's secret trade position

You think that's the best we can do with $1Tn 'investment' in AI ?

A broken Speak-n-Spell hooked up to a speech synthesizer with a flat battery

[DS999]

Re: If the Chinese do find out the American's secret trade position

Yep congressmen know zilch about trade positions, because Trump is making it up as he goes. Anyone who thinks otherwise is not paying attention or is so brainwashed they really do believe he plays 4D chess.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: If the Chinese do find out the American's secret trade position

> It's hard to spy on trade policy when the trade policy on say Australia changes because a reporter asked him a question

Have y'all though of dipping Scotty from Marketing in gold, and sending him to Washington as a gift?

Seems like a perfect decoration for the oval office.

[Omnipresent]

Some of you seem to be misinformed so I will drop some information on you. Half of the us politicians are now in china's pocket. If they say they hate china it's because they are getting paid by china.

Another third are poot's oligarchs. There is a reason poots is making friends with china.

Very few are standing up for humanity and doing their actual tax payer jobs.

Their job is to do what the tax payers want. That's how democracy works.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

>Their job is to do what the tax payers want. That's how democracy works.

Their job is to do what the non-tax payers want, the tax-payers don't have any spare change for donations