Those tensions spiked last year after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to democratically governed Taiwan, leading China, which claims the island as its territory, to launch military exercises around Taiwan. national security establishment considers its main military, economic and strategic rival - have been on the rise in recent months. Tensions between Washington and Beijing - which the U.S. Bryan Vorndran, the FBI cyber division assistant director, called the intrusions “unacceptable tactics” in the same statement. “For years, China has conducted aggressive cyber operations to steal intellectual property and sensitive data from organizations around the globe,” said CISA Director Jen Easterly, urging mitigation of affected networks to prevent possible disruption. The maker of Fortiguard devuces, Fortinet, did not immediately respond to an email seeking further details. It said the intruders gained initial access through internet-facing Fortiguard devices, which are engineered to use machine-learning to detect malware. Microsoft said the intrusion campaign placed a “strong emphasis on stealth” and sought to blend into normal network activity by hacking small-office network equipment, including routers. Separately, the National Security Agency, the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and their counterparts from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Britain published a joint advisory sharing technical details on “the recently discovered cluster of activity.” It said organizations affected by the hacking - which seeks persistent access - are in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, information technology and education sectors. Microsoft said in a blog post that the state-sponsored group of hackers, which it calls Volt Typhoon, has been active since mid-2021. Hostile activity in cyberspace - from espionage to the advanced positioning of malware for potential future attacks - has become a hallmark of modern geopolitical rivalry. has a major military presence, the company said. The targets include sites in Guam, where the U.S. and Asia during future crises, Microsoft said Wednesday. critical infrastructure and could be laying the technical groundwork for the potential disruption of critical communications between the U.S. It is as if General William Sherman suddenly appeared in the modern age and told the world what it was like to be him.”-Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Author of “A First-Rate Madness: uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness.BOSTON (AP) - State-backed Chinese hackers have been targeting U.S. He was a great crisis leader, a top battlefield general, not just despite bipolar illness, but partly because of it. He describes how he did well with some aspects of bipolar illness, then how the illness worsened and nearly destroyed him, and finally how he recovered and survived with the right treatment. No one of his stature, whether as a military or political leader, has ever written such a thing. Nassir Ghaemi:” What General Gregg Martin has done in this book truly is unique. But there is room for hope, and awareness and vigilance on our part is THE merry first step to stopping the transfer of wealth, trade secrets, and intellectual property.įrom world-reknowned psychiatrist and mental illness expert Prof. It is a problem that affects every single one of us, whether in the national security industrial complex, corporate America, or academia. I highly recommend this short book to everyone. I will have much more to say over the coming year, but this is just one prong of one adversary’s tactics in conducting Acquisition Warfare ( #acqwar) against the United States. The book is short, so there are not a lot of detailed examples to show the variations, but the high level treatment is sufficient to get a firm understanding of this threat. The book only addresses HUMINT operations only, and I’m sure the picture is much bleaker when you include cyber attacks to facilitate espionage activities. That’s right, China is open and honest a good portion of the time about what they are wanting to do. More a monograph than a book, but this book packed with a concise description of just how China has managed “the greatest wealth transfer in history.” I’ve been paying attention for awhile now to the industrial espionage and academic exploitation that China has been doing, but this book describes in detail how the Chinese apparatus orchestrates espionage as “thousands of grains of sand.” This isn’t your traditional spy-versus-spy operation, and I was surprised as to just how much takes place using no cover or tradecraft techniques. Book #1 of 2022: Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics by Nicholas Eftimiades
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