Sloppy Chinese Hackers Exposed: McMaster Warns of Imminent War!

This is your Digital Dragon Watch: Weekly China Cyber Alert podcast.

*Welcome to Digital Dragon Watch, your Weekly China Cyber Alert! I'm Ting, and I've got the hottest China-related cyber intel that's been lighting up networks this past week. Buckle up—it's been intense.*

Hey cyber warriors! This week has been absolutely wild in the China cyber scene. Just two days ago, H.R. McMaster told U.S. lawmakers that Chinese government spies have been digging deep into American telecommunications and critical infrastructure for one reason only: "They're preparing for war." Not mincing words there!

Meanwhile, EclecticIQ dropped a bombshell report on May 14th showing that China-nexus APT groups have been exploiting a nasty vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. We're talking about CVE-2025-31324, an unauthenticated file upload vulnerability that gives them remote code execution capabilities. The scope? They've reportedly breached 581 critical systems worldwide!

The attack patterns match known Chinese threat actors including UNC5221, UNC5174, and CL-STA-0048. Their targeting is strategic and widespread: natural gas distribution networks and waste management utilities in the UK, medical device manufacturing plants in the U.S., and even Saudi Arabian government ministries responsible for financial regulation.

What's particularly interesting is how we discovered this—the attackers got sloppy! They left an openly accessible directory on their server at IP 15.204.56[.]106, containing Nuclei scan results that revealed the full scope of their operations. Classic rookie mistake from supposedly elite hackers!

On the regulatory front, China's been busy too. The Shanghai Cyberspace Administration of China recently penalized several internet healthcare service enterprises for failing to meet their cybersecurity and data security obligations. And the Ministry of Public Security announced three criminal cases involving personal information violations, including one where suspects used Trojan programs to steal customer data from education enterprises.

For those keeping track of China's evolving cyber regulations, the country published amendments to its Cybersecurity Law in April, introducing stricter penalties and better alignment with existing data protection laws.

My advice for the week ahead: Patch your SAP NetWeaver systems immediately if you haven't already, implement network segmentation for critical infrastructure, and watch for unusual scanning activity from IP ranges associated with China-nexus actors.

That's all for this week's Digital Dragon Watch! I'm Ting, signing off until next time. Stay vigilant, stay patched, and remember—in cyberspace, the Great Wall has eyes everywhere!

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