Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch

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Hey listeners, Alexandra Reeves here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch. Straight to the pulse on this week's Chinese cyber ops hammering US security—because in the shadows of the net, Beijing's not playing nice.

Picture this: I'm hunkered in my DC war room, screens flickering with fresh intel as the FBI drops a bombshell. They've tagged a China-linked breach of their own internal surveillance systems as a major cyber incident. Bob Bragg's Daily Drop nails it—actors tied to the People's Liberation Army slipped in, siphoning data that coul...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch. Strap in, because the past week in Chinese cyber ops has been a sneaky storm targeting US security—think Salt Typhoon's telecom tentacles still wriggling after breaching eight US providers like AT&T and Verizon, per CSIS reports. These hackers, linked straight to China's Ministry of State Security, slurped up call records and FISA surveillance data since late 2024, hitting political bigwigs' comms. New twist? They're embedding in cloud services like Dropbox for command-and-control, dodging detection like ghosts in the matrix.

This is your Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch podcast.

Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week—because if Beijing's hackers aren't keeping you up at night, they should be. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, screens flickering with fresh intel, coffee going cold as I trace the threads of Xi Jinping's shadow ops hitting US security like a zero-day exploit.

First off, new attack methodologies—China's APT41 crew, those sneaky bastards from the Ministry of State Security, rolled out AI-a...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber ops shaking US security this week—because while Iran's lobbing rockets at Tel Aviv and the Houthis are trash-talking from Yemen, Beijing's hackers are the real shadow puppeteers pulling strings on American networks. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my Shanghai-inspired digital war room, caffeine-fueled and firewall-proof, unpacking the past few days' chaos up to March 29, 2026.

First off, new attack methodologies—APT41, that notorious Beijing-backed crew out of Sichuan province, dropped a nast...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into this week's pulse-pounding Chinese cyber ops rattling US security. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, screens flickering with the latest intel, as Beijing's hackers pull off moves straight out of a sci-fi thriller—but way too real for comfort.

Kicking off with new attack methodologies, federal cyber authorities via Cybersecurity Dive just dropped that China-linked crews are slamming US telecom networks with stealthy Linux-based backdoors. These sneaky implants, spotted evolving since December 2024 an...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, eyes glued to feeds as the FCC drops a bombshell on March 23rd—banning all new foreign-made consumer routers from hitting US shelves. Why? Because Beijing's hackers are turning your humble home Wi-Fi box into a Trojan horse for espionage and infrastructure sabotage.

Let's break it down techie-style. Chinese state-sponsored crews like **Volt Typhoon**, **Flax Typhoon**, an...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from China that's rattling US security this week. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, screens flickering with the latest from the ODNI's 2026 Annual Threat Assessment, dropped just yesterday by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. China tops the list as the most relentless cyber predator, hammering US government nets, private sectors, and critical infrastructure with espionage ops that feel like a never-ending DDoS on our sovereignty.

Flash to the past few...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from China's hackers this week—because if you thought stealth bombers were invisible, think again. Picture this: I'm huddled in my digital war room, screens flickering with intercepts from Zhengji Technologies, that sneaky Beijing firm that's just flipped the script on US air superiority. According to 24 News HD reports, their brand-new Jungchi system—yeah, that's Zhengji's signal-sniffing beast—nabbed the B-2 Spirit's electronic signals mid-flight over the Strait of Hormuz. Not a full hack, but a...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch. Picture this: it's March 18, 2026, and while the world's eyes are glued to those Iranian missiles raining on Israel and US bases, I'm laser-focused on the digital shadows cast by Beijing. You think the Middle East fireworks are bad? China's cyber crews have been dialing up the heat on US security this week, slipping under the radar like ghosts in the Strait of Hormuz fog.

Let's kick off with the new attack methodologies—straight fire from People's Liberation Army Unit 61398, ac...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with your Beijing Watch cybersecurity briefing. Let's cut straight to what's happening in the digital trenches because this week has been absolutely wild.

First up, we're seeing a major shift in Chinese cyber tactics that frankly has the intelligence community scrambling. Traditional espionage operations are evolving into what I call hybrid disruption warfare. The actors aren't just stealing data anymore—they're positioning themselves to create chaos during geopolitical flashpoints. According to Fox Business reporting on maritime tensions, there's a direct correlation between kinetic military es...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding world of Chinese cyber ops shaking US security this past week. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, screens flickering with logs from the dark corners of the net, and Beijing's hackers are pulling out all the stops.

First off, new attack methodologies—Volt Typhoon's back at it, but evolved. According to FireEye's latest Mandiant report, they've weaponized AI-driven zero-days targeting US critical infrastructure. Think quantum-resistant encryption crackers hitting power grids in...

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Look, something's brewing in Beijing and Washington's not ready for it. I'm Ting, and this is Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch.

This week alone, we've seen Chinese threat actors pivot hard toward critical infrastructure. The attacks aren't just targeting the usual suspects anymore. We're talking energy grids, water treatment facilities, and financial networks getting absolutely hammered with new polymorphic malware that's honestly impressive in its sophistication. These aren't commodity tools either—this is bespoke stuff designed to evade signature detection and stay dormant for months.

Here's what's ge...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, your pulse on China's sly cyber moves shaking US security. Picture this: I'm hunkered in my digital war room, screens flickering with the latest from the past week up to March 11, 2026, and Beijing's fingerprints are all over the chaos. China expert Gordon Chang dropped a bombshell on CBN News March 10, laying out how China's fed Iran's nuclear tech—centrifuges, warhead plans, the works—tying straight into the US-Israel strikes on Iran. That's not just proliferation; it's Beijing's unrestricted warfare doctrine in acti...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week that's got US security pros sweating bullets. Picture this: while the world's eyes are glued to those US-Israel airstrikes on Iran since February 28—killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparking missile madness from Tehran to Tel Aviv—China's hackers are stealthily carving up America's digital backbone like it's dim sum night.

Leading the pack is Salt Typhoon, that notorious Beijing-backed crew TechCrunch calls one of the most...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from China's hackers this past week—because while missiles fly over Iran, Beijing's digital ninjas are slicing into US defenses like it's just another Tuesday in the Great Firewall.

Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my Shanghai-inspired war room, screens flickering with logs from the latest APT41 ops—yeah, that notorious state-sponsored crew out of Chengdu. Just days ago, on March 5th, Mandiant dropped a bombshell report tagging PLA Unit 61398 for a slic...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber buzz from the past week as US-Iran tensions explode. Picture this: while US and Israeli jets are pounding Tehran, shredding Ayatollah Khamenei's compound on February 28 with bunker-busters guided by Mossad's Unit 8200 hacking Iran's traffic cams for years—yep, those sneaky Israelis jammed mobile towers and beamed encrypted feeds straight to their servers—China's fingerprints are all over the cyber chaos lurking in the shadows.

Beijing's not firing missiles, but their hackers? Oh, they...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from China's hackers over the past week—right up to this wild March 4th, 2026 evening. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my Shanghai-inspired war room, screens flickering with threat intel, caffeine-fueled and ready to unpack how Beijing's digital ninjas are jabbing at US security like pros in a zero-day cage match.

First off, the new attack methodologies—oh, they're slick. Chinese state-linked groups like APT41, those sneaky shadows out of Chengdu, rolled out...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week—because in this game, yesterday's intel is tomorrow's breach. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, as Salt Typhoon and Linen Typhoon, those sneaky Chinese crews, keep hammering North American telecoms, government nets, and IT services like it's Black Friday for backdoors. Cloudflare's 2026 Threat Report just dropped, screaming that these state-sponsored bad guys are pre-positioning for the long haul, anchoring malware deep for geopolitical armageddon—thin...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome to Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch. Let's dive straight into what's been happening in the cyber realm this week, because honestly, it's been absolutely wild.

So here's the thing that's got everyone's attention right now. China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, or CVERC, just dropped a document claiming that America's crackdown on cryptocurrency isn't actually law enforcement—it's all about US global hegemony. They're saying the prosecution of Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng was just theater, a way for Washington to dominate crypto ma...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber moves from the past week that have US security on high alert. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, dissecting the chaos Beijing's hackers are unleashing on Uncle Sam's backyard.

First up, Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant just dropped a bombshell—China-linked crew UNC2814, aka Gallium, infiltrated over 50 telecoms and government agencies across 42 countries, including key US spots. These sneaky foxes hid their GRIDTIDE backdoor malware right in...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week ending February 23, 2026. Picture this: I'm sipping baijiu in my digital war room, screens flickering with red alerts, as Beijing's hackers pull off moves that'd make Sun Tzu nod approvingly.

First up, Red Packet Security dropped a bombshell today—China's got deep hooks in US energy networks, electric grids, oil, and gas giants, primed to flip the switch and black out the nation in a heartbeat. These aren't fl...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from China's hackers this past week. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, watching Volt Typhoon— that sneaky Chinese state-sponsored crew—still burrowed deep in America's power grids and water plants like uninvited guests who won't leave. Dragos dropped their Year in Review report on February 19th, and CEO Rob Lee laid it bare: these guys have been embedding since 2021, mapping utilities from Massachusetts' Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments—where...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week leading up to February 20, 2026. Buckle up—China's hackers are flexing like never before, and Uncle Sam’s security is feeling the burn.

Volt Typhoon, that stealthy Chinese nation-state crew operational since 2021, is still burrowed deep in US critical infrastructure like utilities, telecoms, and defense networks. Dragos researchers confirm they're exploiting zero-days in edge devices like VPNs and gateways, using bespoke malware such as Brickstorm and the new Grim...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week that's got US security sweating. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, coffee IV-dripped, watching Beijing's hackers play 4D chess with our grids.

Dragos dropped their 2025 Year in Review report Tuesday, and it's a gut punch—Volt Typhoon, that notorious PRC squad the US government's been yelling about, is still burrowed deep in US energy networks like electric utilities, oil, and gas pipelines. They're no...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week ending February 16, 2026. Picture this: I'm sipping baijiu in my virtual Beijing bunker, firewall blazing, as China's hackers crank the heat on US security like it's a spicy Sichuan hotpot.

First, new attack methodologies—Quorum Cyber's 2026 Global Cyber Risk Outlook drops a bombshell: China-linked groups are the top public sector threat, now wielding AI agents to automate 90% of the intrusion lifecycle. We're talking end-to-end hacks from recon to ex...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, your go-to for the pulse-pounding world of Chinese cyber ops shaking US security. Straight from the wire this weekend—February 14th saw DragonForce ransomware slam Shining Labels in Hong Kong, threatening to dump their apparel secrets unless they negotiate, per DeXpose reports. But that's just the appetizer; the real feast is Chinese APTs like APT5, aka Keyhole Panda or Mulberry Typhoon, UNC3236 known as Volt Typhoon, and UNC6508 feasting on North American defense contractors, per Google's Threat Analysis Group and Mandiant's la...

This is your Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch podcast.

Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from the past week. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, screens flickering with fresh intel, as China's hackers pull off moves straight out of a sci-fi thriller. Google Threat Intelligence just dropped a bombshell report linking China-nexus crews like UNC3236, aka Volt Typhoon, and UNC6508 to relentless sieges on US defense contractors. These sly foxes are probing login portals of North American military giants, slipping in via edge devices—think vu...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome back to Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch. Today we're diving into what's been happening in the Chinese cyber threat landscape, and trust me, it's been wild.

Let's start with something that just dropped. Google's Threat Intelligence Group flagged that China-nexus groups have been absolutely relentless against the defense industrial base. We're talking about threat actors like UNC3886 and UNC5221 who are getting sneakier by targeting edge devices and appliances as their entry point. These aren't your typical network breaches—they're going after the in...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber ops slamming US security this week—because if you're not patching fast, you're playing catch-up with the PLA's hackers.

Picture this: I'm sipping baijiu in my digital war room, screens flickering with fresh IOCs, and bam—Cisco Talos drops the bomb on DKnife, this slick Linux toolkit that's been hijacking routers since 2019, still pinging C2 servers in January 2026. China-nexus crews are turning CentOS and RHEL edge devices into espionage gateways, doing adversary-in-the-middle tric...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and we've got some seriously wild stuff happening in the cyber realm right now. Let me cut straight to it because this is big.

So Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 just dropped a bombshell about a previously unknown Asian state-backed group they're calling TGR-STA-1030, and honestly, the scope here is staggering. These guys have breached at least seventy government and critical infrastructure organizations across thirty-seven countries over the past year. That's roughly one in five countries getting hit. But here's where it gets really interesting—th...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from China that's rattling US security this week. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my neon-lit war room, screens flickering with the latest intel, coffee gone cold as I trace those sneaky Salt Typhoon tentacles—yeah, that notorious Chinese hacking crew straight out of Beijing's Ministry of State Security playbook.

Just yesterday, Microsoft spilled the beans on Salt Typhoon's slick new trick: exploiting zero-day flaws in Cisco routers and Fortinet firewalls to bu...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week leading up to this February 2nd frenzy. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, eyes glued to threat feeds as Beijing's hackers pull off a slick supply chain heist on Notepad++, that trusty text editor devs swear by. Developer Don Ho just dropped the bomb in his blog—Chinese government-linked operatives hijacked the update mechanism from June to December 2025. They exploited a bug on Notepad++'s...

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Hey listeners, I'm Ting, and welcome back to Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch. Buckle up because the last week has been absolutely wild in the cyber domain, and Beijing's been busier than a developer on Red Bull.

Let's cut straight to it. The Pentagon just rolled out something called Cybercom 2.0, and they didn't do this for fun. According to the Pentagon, Chinese state-sponsored hackers have successfully embedded what's called "living off the land" malware into US national infrastructure. These aren't your typical smash-and-grab attacks. Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber chaos from the past week leading up to this Friday night. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, screens flickering with threat intel, coffee gone cold, as Beijing's hackers keep the U.S. on its toes. Let's unpack the weekly rundown—new tricks, targets, who's pointing fingers, global pushback, and how you lock it down.

First off, attack methodologies: China's crews like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon aren't just pe...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the pulse-pounding cyber chaos from China that's rattling US security this week. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my digital war room, screens flickering with fresh intel, as Mustang Panda— that sly China-linked APT crew, aka Earth Preta or Twill Typhoon—unleashes an upgraded COOLCLIENT backdoor. According to The Hacker News reports from early 2026, they're hitting government targets in Myanmar, Mongolia, Malaysia, and even Russia, stealing keystrokes, browser creds from Chrome and Edge, and clipboard gold via DLL side...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch. Straight to the chaos—over the past week, Chinese hackers have been flexing like it's their personal playground, and US security's feeling the burn.

Kicking off with Brickstorm malware, as detailed in the joint CISA, NSA, and Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory from December. These Beijing-backed creeps deployed it against VMware vSphere setups in US government and IT outfits, slipping in backdoors for long-term sabotage. Google's Threat Intelligence Group caught them pivoting to legal services, software providers, and ou...

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Hey listeners, Ting here with Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, your pulse on China's cyber shadow games hitting US turf. Straight to the chaos of the past week—it's January 25, 2026, and Beijing's hackers are playing 4D chess while we're still booting up.

Picture this: I'm hunkered in my digital war room, caffeine-fueled, dissecting eSentire's bombshell on SyncFuture, a slick Chinese espionage op weaponized in the mainland but unleashed on India. Phishing emails masquerading as Income Tax Department lures drop malicious archives, side-loading DLLs via legit Microsoft apps. Anti-debug tricks, pa...

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Hey listeners, Ting here. Let's cut straight to what's happening in the cyber trenches right now because things are getting spicy between Beijing and Washington.

Army Lieutenant General Joshua Rudd just testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that China is executing an unprecedented campaign against our critical infrastructure. We're talking water systems, power grids, financial networks—the essential arteries of American society. Rudd made it crystal clear that China represents the most serious and sophisticated cyber threat the U.S. faces, pe...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into the hottest Chinese cyber moves shaking US security this week—think espionage fireworks amid Trump's tariff blitz. Mandiant just dropped a bombshell: a slick Chinese hacking crew, tracked as UNC something-or-other, has burrowed into US software devs and law firms like Wiley Rein in DC, swiping proprietary code to hunt vulns and fuel Beijing's trade war intel grab. These ops hit cloud providers too—think AWS rivals—lurking undetected for over a year, per Mandiant's Charles Carmakal, who's callin...

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Hey listeners, Ting here on Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch, diving straight into this week's pulse-pounding Chinese cyber ops shaking US security. Picture this: I'm hunkered down in my neon-lit war room, screens flickering with IOCs, as Mustang Panda— that sneaky China-nexus crew the US DOJ pinned as PRC-sponsored back in 2025—drops Venezuela-themed phishing bombs on US government agencies. Acronis Threat Research nailed it in their Thursday report: ZIP files baited with "US now deciding what’s next for Venezuela.zip," loaded with LOTUSLITE, a custom C++ backdoor using DLL sideloading for es...