Future War
Just last week the FBI warned about the Chinese cyber espionage group, Volt Typhoon, was back attempting to infiltrate critical US infrastructure with a new tactic. Last year, the FBI announced that they had dismantled part or most of the group's botnet, which had targeted our water, energy and telecommunications networks. A botnet is a group of compromised computers that are connected via the net and are controlled by a third party, in this case the CCP. The new tactic takes advantage of old out-of-date modems that no longer get updates and can be easily accessed by today's cyber criminals. Many networks in the world fall into this category and our enemies have access to most of them. In many cases we know this and in others, we've been hacked for years and they have all the data they could ever want. Now, this week, the FBI reveals that another CCP hacking group, called Salt Typhoon, has hacked more than a dozen US telecommunications companies to such a great extent that the Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, of Oregon, called it, "the worst telecom hack in our nation's history - by far." The hack included Donald Trump's and JD Vance's phones, as well as Kamala Harris and other officials in the campaigns and in government. The hackers are still in the networks and have been for as long as a year. To get them out would require millions of dollars in equipment upgrades. They were able to listen in real-time to phone calls and see text messages. These hacks are pre-positioning for a war with the US.