📰 Salt Typhoon: China’s Massive Cyber Breach

💬 Cynthia Kaiser, former FBI cyber official:

“I can’t imagine any American was spared given the breadth of the campaign.”

📌 What happened
• Chinese state-backed hackers launched Salt Typhoon, a multi-year cyberattack hitting over 80 countries.
• Data on nearly every American may have been collected.
• Targets included telecoms, transportation, lodging, government systems — and even the campaign phones of Trump and JD Vance.
• Western allies called it “unrestrained” and “indiscriminate.”

⚡️ Why it matters
This wasn’t a narrow espionage op. It was a systematic harvesting of global communication networks — calls, texts, movements, and political targets. Investigators warn Salt Typhoon shows Beijing has shifted from quick intrusions to deep, persistent access to core infrastructure.

🌍 The bigger picture
The hack was revealed the same week Xi Jinping oversaw China’s largest military parade in decades. Tanks, jets, and missiles filled Tiananmen Square, while the West confronted a stark reminder: China’s cyber capabilities now rival those of the United States.

If Beijing can infiltrate networks across 80 nations, is “cyber defense” still realistic — or has the balance of power already shifted to whoever controls global communication infrastructure?

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