This is your Red Alert: China's Daily Cyber Moves podcast.I’m Ting, and listeners, we’re going straight into today’s red alert on China’s cyber moves against the US.Across the last week, the loudest alarm is a perfect storm: Chinese state-linked groups pushing the new React2Shell exploit while quietly parking long‑term implants like BRICKSTORM deep inside US networks. According to The Hacker News, React2Shell, tracked as CVE‑2025‑55182, is a 10.0‑rated remote code execution flaw in React Server Components that went public on December 3 and was weaponized by at least two China‑nexus groups within hours. CISA then told federal agencies: patch by December 12 or assume compromise.Cybersecurity Dive and The Hacker News both report that these China‑linked operators are using React2Shell for high‑speed recon and initial access against cloud‑heavy environments, with nearly 40% of cloud stacks potentially exposed. Targets include .gov sites, research universities, and critical‑infrastructure operators, including a national authority that handles uranium and rare‑metals imports. That should make every US energy, telecom, and defense CIO sit up.In parallel, CISA and Canada’s Cyber Centre dropped a joint analysis on BRICKSTORM, a backdoor they explicitly tie to PRC state‑sponsored actors operating against US IT and government services. Their report says BRICKSTORM is built for VMware vCenter, ESXi, and Windows, enabling long‑term persistence, lateral movement to domain controllers, and even theft of cryptographic keys. CrowdStrike has tagged the deploying crew as WARP PANDA, known for advanced OPSEC and deep knowledge of cloud and virtual machines.Timeline check: December 3, React2Shell is disclosed. Within hours, Chinese groups begin probing US‑adjacent networks. December 4–5, CISA releases the BRICKSTORM analysis and formally warns that PRC actors are embedding for “long‑term access, disruption, and potential sabotage.” Over this past week, agencies escalate guidance, add React2Shell to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, and push emergency patch deadlines, while hospitals and other critical sectors get fresh updates to CISA’s voluntary cybersecurity performance goals.So what should US defenders do tonight, not “sometime next quarter”? CISA’s guidance is blunt: patch all React Server Components instances to the latest React builds; hunt for anomalous RSC Flight protocol traffic; scan for BRICKSTORM indicators of compromise on VMware vSphere and Windows; inventory and lock down network edge devices; verify segmentation between internet‑facing systems and domain controllers; and report anything suspicious directly to CISA and the FBI.Escalation scenarios? If WARP PANDA and related PRC units decide to flip from espionage to disruption, the combination of cloud‑side React2Shell access plus BRICKSTORM‑style persistence could enable coordinated hits on hosting providers, managed service providers, and then downstream hospitals, logistics, and energy operators. Washington is already reacting: the new FY2026 defense bill, described by Jones Day’s policy analysis, pours more money and authority into US Cyber Command, signaling preparation for sustained confrontation in the gray zone.I’m Ting, thanks for tuning in, stay patched, stay paranoid, and don’t forget to subscribe. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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