SinaCyber founder. Former @FBI and lead PANDA hunter @CrowdStrike. Apolitical, APAC, apothegmatic. Came to fight bad guys, stayed for the memes. Views = mine
Another unfortunate and increasingly common case of Chinese MPS officers operating (not-so-in-the-shadows) on foreign soil to threaten and intimidate CN diaspora, US citizens, etc. CCP asks countries to "respect territorial integrity" then proceeds to violate theirs daily
I just learned that one of the PRC agents behind the counterprotest of a rally I led in Boston in Aug2019 was finally arrested & indicted by federal grand jury tdy. After FOUR YEARS. I'm relieved, outraged & disappointed at the same time. Stay tuned as I am processing it here👇🏽
After six years, I’ve left @SixthTone. Or conditions were created for me to leave after publishing a project that criticized “zero-COVID,” which landed multiple people in hot water. It’s been bittersweet leaving a place we’ve built over the years but it was time.
(A long 🧵)
Customers of @CrowdStrike@MsftSecIntel etc. will have been familiar with the location and names of actors from JUDGMENT PANDA/Zirconium for a couple years but always excited for I-T drops for corroboration & to see what's changed or what creative way they got there 🙃
What if there was a way to:
• Mitigate climate change
• Create more life
• Grow the economy
• And make money along the way?
Let's call it *Seaflooding*
It was inevitable. Spammers use #ChatGPT to create fake websites using natural language processing. It allows malicious actors to quickly generate bogus sites that generate revenue from ads or other malicious content. Next few tweets: how is it done? (1/4)
My @CYBERWARCON talk covers the build up in PRC cyber talent and capabilities from 2013 til now. My latest find, which I'll debut there, is China's 2022 "Cybersecurity Talent Actual Combat Abilities White Paper, Attack & Defense Capabilities Edition"
One of the first things I always pointed out to clients in my early days at CrowdStrike whenever the inevitable Huawei questions rolled in. I miss OSC 😢
Sun Yafang, Huawei chairwoman until 2019, began her career inside the Ministry of State Security's tech research program. Now the MSS is alleged to have helped Huawei interfere in the US legal system. https://t.co/CUu7zNzi3D
"A signal achievement by Joske is his account of the various MSS front organizations that spy and exert influence on foreigners and foreign organizations to advance China’s position in the world." Spies and Lies reviewed by @matthew_brazil for @talk_spy https://t.co/0XvwILpMkK
"Truss' political career was shattered in a flash by the baizuo's (white left) political correctness" - Mei Xinyu, an economist pundit, attributes the fall of the Truss administration to the selection of meritless "blacks," "Indians," and "female officials".
1/19
Did you know.. Cai Qi, a new (and arguably the least expected) China CCP Politburo Standing Committee member, visited Taiwan in 2012 and published a short diary?
Here are my takeaways from reading it so you don't have to:
DRAGONBRIDGE is behind the strange APT41 attribution denialism and doing election related activity too. They are aggressive, well-resourced, but ultimately failing to get engagement. Election interference is no longer just Russia and Iran. https://t.co/sP1NDKxhL7