Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs

[usonian]

Just as Dump undoes Biden's cybersecurity enhancements.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/china_malware_flip_switch_sentinelone/

'Pre-positioning for conflict'
SentinelLABS found more than 70 victims globally across manufacturing, government, finance, telecommunications, and research. One of these was an IT services and logistics company that manages hardware logistics for SentinelOne employees.

Additionally, the security outfit's research uncovered a September 2024 intrusion into a "leading European media organization."

It's a broad range of victims, but they all share one thing in common: they represent strategic targets as China prepares for war of the cyber or kinetic variety.

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"They might be going after government organizations for more direct espionage," Hegel said. "And then major global media organizations — maybe it's silencing certain topics or disrupting them for reporting on certain things. If they are sitting on their adversaries' networks — media organizations, or government entities or their defense companies — they are able to flip a switch if conflict were to occur."

And all those tanks, with nowhere to go.

Bricked?

ETA: See Also
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/08/exnsc_official_not_sure_us/
US infrastructure could crumble under cyberattack, ex-NSA advisor warns

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