Chinese hacking is becoming bigger, better and stealthier

economist.com

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https://archive.is/2025.03.26-065006/https://www.economist.c...

We get Chinese garbage text as "Meeting Info" in MS Teams and pertaining mails each time we post an invitation to a Teams conference. Microsoft has apparently been subverted by Chinese garbage text generators.

Weak home routers are the source of the problem. What's the safest wifi-enabled router to use at home these days?

Something open source that you control. I run OpenWRT on everything.

awesome

They're probably paid better than a GS-8 or whatever. C'mon "economist", why not cover the economics?

Even though it named The Economist, it never meant to be an economic focused or academic journal.

Just like China Daily, half of that newspaper is focused on global news.

China has always been better, because they actually do it. Constantly and consistently. American hackers don’t do enough. The current administration should just make it legal for them to attack foreign enemies. Open season.

I'm not in agreement with that, but I don't understand why critical infrastructure is online in the first place. Why does a dam need to be on the Internet? Air-gap anything that could actually harm people.

Because manager.

CTO should be a mandated position as a CFO is, and liable in kind, with clear cut responsibilities.

"American hackers don’t do enough."

How do you know that?

Given that "foreign enemies" is decided by the posting of a tweet that's asking for global chaos.

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