Investigators are still probing the origins of the Salt Typhoon attack and are exploring whether the intruders gained access to Cisco Systems routers. Hackers apparently exfiltrated some data from Verizon networks by reconfiguring Cisco routers, said one current and one former U.S. official familiar with the matter.
2 reasons: Makes current admin look terrible and some politicians are afraid to be called racist for pointing out how evil and dangerous the Chinese government is…
The problem is that the US older work force learned nothing from Japan rise, and still hold stereotypes about Chinese and their incapability of doing anything except copying. Like Japan in 1960s and 1970s, they started off by copying, but they also learned from that copying and then applied their learning like every other people to innovate. So long as racism causes the US work force to underestimate their competition, these sort of surprises will keep coming.
Nobody is surprised that the Chinese are becoming more capable. It's like being surprised that a deer walked in front of your car or waking up late for an airplane flight. Easy to predict, was still surprising.
Would anyone know if Microsoft being compromised meant that they were able to get into Microsoft Azure as well? Because if so, it means they would have access into military data.
