By, Jason Straus
Painstakingly, feverishly and continuously we fight the Chinese cyber-threat. The full gravity of the Chinese migrating and oozing over our virtual boarder is here. The conspiratorial lunacy has proven to be correct as the sheer volume of Chinese breaches in the US grows exponentially, daily. Few have the capacity to truly comprehend the devastation the Chinese have had on the US and European economic landscapes. Most people cannot fully appreciate the rampant moral decay, ID theft, corporate and governmental espionage China has propagated against the average American citizen.
Nation State warfare aside, American’s and western Europeans have yet to fully embrace the truth that China’s government has waged full-fledged war on the unsuspecting citizens that populate the American and European nations. Look at the facts. China is a gigantic monstrosity with zero non-toxic natural resources. Their air is thickened with aero-vomit; cancer is an epidemic due to the carcinogens bursting at the seams of the very molecular structure of their water. The Chinese have absolutely devastated any and every usable natural resource they have. They now head south to Africa and construct artificial islands in the China Sea, they are taking over eastern Europe and leaving a trail of devastation and political corruption behind them.
China has kept their country from falling apart through fear, imprisonment and intimidation (Yes, the same way the US and European governments have kept modern revolutions from erupting, but the Chinese conundrum is a bit different.) As corrupt as the governmental aspects of the US and EU are and have been, they still had a strategy for general order. China, has zero plan for civil order and will, through the sheer number of their population throw people at any problem they face. We are seeing this reality take shape as the age of cyberwar develops.
The Chinese are the least sophisticated, yet most destructive element in cyberwar. The United States currently owns this space with their highly evolved NSA hacking teams and bleeding edge technology and know-how. A close second are the stealthy Russians who approach this new cold war like chess, manipulate and dominate and by all means, do it methodically. China is a player only because of their desperate need to catch up and the number of troops they can throw at this challenge.
Adversaries will rarely discover American state sponsored hackers in their system unless a contractor or other third party knows exactly what to look for and where to look. Russian hackers are equally complicated in their stealth. Chinese hackers are kind of like the retarded cousin who lives in his grandmother’s basement; he’s always around, getting in the way, you try to ignore them but they just keep showing up every time your grandmother comes with her cookies. Chinese hackers severely lack sophistication. You can find them in your network almost instantly if you have user behavioral analytics and multi factor authentication. The problem is, most targets are even less sophisticated and don’t detect the Chinese threat exfiltrating data from their network until someone on the outside discovers it during a penetration test.
The Chinese wreak havoc wherever they go in cyberspace. Their non-state sponsored hacker teams are the originators in many of the fake anti-virus and ransomware scams (surpassed only by India, the scam central of cyberspace). And just as in state sponsored havoc, the Chinese cause millions upon millions of dollars in losses with their scams and ID theft affecting thousands of American and EU companies.
The laughable lack of sophistication can be seen by their lack of capability to cover their tracks. Basic, I mean ‘The’ most ‘Basic’ forensics will easily display the perpetrator’s time zone, type of keyboard, cut and paste code and more. The Chinese know they are stupid. They are waiting to get caught and when they are finally caught, they simply cut and paste from a different script, downloaded for free on some script kiddy forum that only wannabe’s and ten year olds visit on the deep web.
Right now the Chinese are doing what they’ve always done, supplement for ingenuity by stealing. They absolutely have zero capacity to create. Their education system is purely analytical and memorization. As a China-man to think his way out of a shredded paper bag and you’ll bring him to tears. Right now it’s all about espionage and black market capitalization. Fortunately, even the blackest hat hacker cringes when attempting a transaction with a Chinese cybercriminal because they cannot be trusted. Some of the most trust worthy people I’ve ever met have been on deep web forums because they don’t want to screw up their hacker credibility so the criminal code is strict. Screw even one person over intentionally and you’ll never run from it even if you change your handle. The Chinese don’t yet understand this and they try to steal even from other hackers.
What will happen when the Chinese gain sophistication? Currently North Korean hackers are trained in China and Russia and other places in the eastern bloc. The best Chinese hackers used to go to Russia but now found an easier place to train and learn the most sophisticated coding from the most brilliant minds in the world, America. In less than 5 years you’ll start seeing breaches with pure recklessness and immaturity that is notorious for Chinese hackers, yet with the sophistication of the Americans and the brilliant stealth of the Russians. This is when we will have a problem.
Call me racist, call me an imperialist, but you’ll never be able to say that anything that I’ve written above is wrong. When the Chinese have even a fraction of the techno-capability of Russia or the US, you will see a cyber Armageddon unlike anything you can currently fathom. Instead of malware that exfiltrate data from damns by the adversary, we’ll have damn modules manipulated to cause catastrophic flooding. Instead of a Stuxnet initiation with a Project Cleaver retaliation, we’ll have the modules manipulated on our energy grid for blackouts and nuclear fallout.
Right now, if you’re a hacker reading this you’ll come from one of three different camps: the old guard, cyberpunk and pure wannabe. The old guard will read this, bite their lip and sigh because they know its coming. Get ready people. It’s going to happen when no one is expecting it. Like flipping a switch, China will see the light and will become impregnated hacker capabilities and with their track record, they will stop at nothing until they’ve destroyed everything.
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