This is your Tech Shield: US vs China Updates podcast.Hey listeners, Ting here, your go-to cyber sleuth with a front-row seat to the US-China tech showdown. Picture this: it's December 2025, and the digital trenches are buzzing hotter than a overclocked GPU. Chinese hackers, those sneaky UAT-9686 operatives linked to Beijing's intel machine, just pounced on a zero-day gem in Cisco's Email Security Appliances—CVE-2025-20393, a root-access jackpot with a perfect CVSS 10.0 score. WebProNews reports they've been burrowing in since November, hitting exposed gateways for espionage gold, leaving hundreds of firms from finance to gov scrambling. Cisco's yelling for config lockdowns, but no patch yet—expected early 2026. Witty aside: it's like leaving your firewall's backdoor wide open during a Beijing blackout.Meanwhile, CISA's sounding alarms left and right. They just beefed up the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with nasties like CVE-2025-14611 in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox—hard-coded crypto flaws ripe for the picking. And get this, they're tracking Brickstorm malware, a China-nexus beast still prowling networks per Cybersecurity Dive. Over in Southeast Asia and Japan, newbie APT LongNosedGoblin's dropping Group Policy malware on gov targets, as Cyware Social spilled today. Ink Dragon's expanding espionage too, says Innovate Cybersecurity. US defenses? Patching furiously, but gaps yawn wide—aging infra's a sitting duck for AI-fueled onslaughts predicted by 2026, per SecurityBrief Asia.Gov's pushing back hard. Rep. Brian Mast's AI OVERWATCH Act wants advanced semis like Nvidia H200s treated as munitions, with 30-day congressional vetoes on China sales. Politico notes Rep. Gregory Meeks' RESTRICT Act echoes that, banning exports outright. But plot twist: Trump's "transactional diplomacy" greenlit Nvidia resuming H200 shipments to China under a 25% fed tax waiver, per MarketMinute. Hawks like Rep. Shri Thanedar are fuming—feeds Beijing's AI war chest while we tax our own edge?Industry's rallying with zero-trust pushes and anomaly detectors, but experts at Just Security call out America's cyber retreat undermining Indo-Pacific security. TNSR warns our ISR sats are fragile against PLA counter-scouts—need attritable drone swarms and cyber decoys stat, or deterrence crumbles. Gaps? No CISA director confirmed as Senate adjourns, per Nextgov, right before a new national cyber strat drops. Effectiveness? Patches plug holes, but China's relentless—PLA's arms control white paper brags cyber-AI restraint while drills with Russia near Japan spike tensions, via Center for China Analysis.Folks, we're in a cat-and-mouse sprint; US measures buy time, but scale up industrial output or watch margins vanish. Stay vigilant—zero-days don't holiday.Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more cyber spice! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.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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