A 2020 Telegraph of China’s Effort to Spy on Innovation Hubs
The People’s Republic of China in 2020 created a pretext for spying, influencing, and shaping global innovation hubs by initiating an annual Global Innovation Hubs Index (GIHI) ratings report through Tsinghua University’s Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance (CIDEG), joining its effort to the Nature Research brand by purchasing an article on Nature.com. To…
Pattern Leads: Singapore Servers a Factor in China Hack?
Set-up: A Chinese hacker group called Storm-0558 reportedly breached accounts inside more than 24 organizations, including U.S. State Department officials’ Microsoft accounts leading-up to Secretary Antony Blinken’s June trip to Beijing. The hackers exploited a validation coding error enabling them to forge Azure AD tokens using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key, as…
Balloons: Identify Payload, Source, and Best Practices
The payload of an atmospheric balloon, at whatever elevation, is usually what the balloon is carrying beneath it. We should also consider whether what is inside the balloon itself may be part of the payload. If not done already we should figure out how to discern all payload information before shooting down balloons of possible…
On Xi’s Menu: Lame Duck Divisé
Seizing the Gray: China leverages Donald Trump’s predictably divisive lame duck period at home to project itself as the responsible global leader in the world. China acted similarly when Donald Trump was in his fire and fury phase toward North Korea, later praising Kim Jong Un with no firm denuclearization commitments. Space Race: On December 1,…