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** China's Cybersecurity 'Pearl Harbor' Against America: 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once' ([link removed])
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by Lawrence A. Franklin • April 15, 2025 at 5:00 am
* For decades, Communist China's spies, hackers and businessmen have feasted on the forced transfer of technology from vulnerable US corporate enterprises drawn to the vast Chinese market. Little has been accomplished to reduce this massive theft of intellectual property. US businesses seem to have resigned themselves to such unfair practices as the price of doing business in China.
* In the last two years, however, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) cyber-attacks against America have undergone a deadly shift that seriously threatens the US's capability to prevail in any open conflict with China.
* The second revolutionary advance in China's offensive cyber-warfare capabilities that target US interests is more deadly. It threatens a Pearl Harbor-magnitude attack on America. "Volt Typhoon," aka "Vanguard Panda," involves the stealthy insertion of potentially debilitating malware into the computer systems that control critical nodes of US infrastructure.
* "[W]e have been, over the years, trying to play better and better defense when it comes to cyber. We need to start going on offense and start imposing, I think, higher costs and consequences to private actors and nation state actors that continue to steal our data, that continue to spy on us, and that even worse, with the Volt Typhoon penetration, that are literally putting cyber time bombs on our infrastructure, our water systems, our grids, even our ports." — Mike Waltz, shortly before he was appointed National Security Adviser, CBS News, December 15, 2024.
* Trump might also convene a cabinet meeting to assure that all aspects of American public and private capabilities should be mobilized to build resiliency in critical national infrastructure, while simultaneously examining US cyberspace vulnerabilities.
* The US also might also go on the offense and target China's critical national infrastructure, perhaps starting with the Cyberspace Administration of China?
A revolutionary, deadly, advance in China's offensive cyber-warfare capabilities that target US interests involves the stealthy insertion of potentially debilitating malware into the computer systems that control critical nodes of US infrastructure. The malicious code is designed to remain quiescent and undiscovered until China activates it during a future military confrontation with the US. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)
China's multidimensional war against US interests is already underway and well-documented. One underappreciated dimension of its attack on American primacy, however, is the arena of cybersecurity.
For decades, Communist China's spies, hackers and businessmen have feasted on the forced transfer of technology from vulnerable US corporate enterprises drawn to the vast Chinese market. Little has been accomplished to reduce this massive theft of intellectual property. US businesses seem to have resigned themselves to such unfair practices as the price of doing business in China.
In the last two years, however, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) cyber-attacks against America have undergone a deadly shift that seriously threatens the US's capability to prevail in any open conflict with China.
These changes in the CCP's cyber offensive on America consist of two basic capabilities.
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