Cyber Chaos: China's Hack Bonanza Targets US Tech!

This is your China Hack Report: Daily US Tech Defense podcast.

Welcome back, my cyber-curious listeners! Ting here—your favorite techie with just the right mix of snark and knowledge, ready to break down the wild ride of China-linked cyber actions targeting US tech in the last 24 hours. Hold on and let’s dive right into the digital trenches!

First on today’s hack radar: CISA just dropped a malware analysis report dissecting six nasty files tied to the recent SharePoint attacks exploiting vulnerabilities like CVE-2025-49706, 49704, 53770, and 53771. The exploited bugs aren’t just numbers to memorize—these include web shells and a particularly wily key stealer actively combing through compromised infrastructure to swipe cryptographic keys. Sound familiar? That’s because this cluster had its first sightings with a zero-day spree back in July. CISA is begging organizations to snag their IOCs and detection signatures from the new report and get those SharePoint Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016 servers patched—SharePoint Online fans, breathe easy for now!

Where are these crooks prowling? Financial services, government agencies, and energy sector networks all had their bridges guarded last night. That’s right, Department of Energy, DHS, and even HHS found themselves in the crosshairs of an attack chain now being called ToolShell. Palo Alto Networks took a magnifying glass to this, linking it to Project AK47—a toolkit loaded with backdoors, loaders, and ransomware. It’s a buffet of malware nastiness, folks.

On the Microsoft side, the news is no less dramatic. CISA fired out an emergency directive screaming for immediate patching of a hybrid Exchange flaw that lets attackers bounce from on-prem servers up to cloud-based Entra ID. How? By hitching a ride on authentication certificates left behind by default setups. Microsoft’s team coordinated the public disclosure with, you guessed it, Black Hat Las Vegas, ensuring every admin in sight is aware. According to CISA and Microsoft, organizations *must* apply the April 2025 hotfix, clear those old certificates, and, if you procrastinate, brace for Exchange Web Services traffic blocks starting this month. They're not kidding, agencies have four days to lock patch this up.

IoT is the next cyber warzone. According to ISACA, hackers eye everything from smart thermostats to industrial UAS systems. The FAA and TSA have finalized a proposal demanding operators roll out NIST-based cyber standards for UAS management, covering both physical and network-level security. This follows last year’s House Committee on Homeland Security warning about drones from Da Jiang Innovations and Autel Robotics, after Sandia National Labs found disastrous national security risks from Chinese drone infiltration.

For defensive moves, CISA and experts hammer in zero trust architecture—do not let anyone or anything past your gates without proper validation. They’re also pushing AI-powered monitoring tools and complete field-level auditing so no sneaky credential slip goes unnoticed.

Before you vanish into the weekend, here’s Ting’s final byte: patch all vulnerabilities, check your cloud syncs, harden your IoT, and for goodness’ sake, audit those logins. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe if you want the byte-size scoop every day. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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