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over of this expanse dwarfs Russia’s attempted annexation of Ukraine – to a tune of five times – but was rejected by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 2016. From the People’s Liberation Army’s perspective, the United States has no business being anywhere near the Taiwan Strait, Thomas Shoal, or anywhere within region of the ten dash line, where China claims territory. For that reason, we should restrain our expectations as to the real beneft of the recent talks. Given Chinese actions, we can rest assured that this will be tested soon. However, we should not expect either the US-China Defense Policy Coordination Talks or the US-China Military Maritime Consultative Agreement to fundamentally alter the trajectory of events in the second Thomas Shoal. The Cyber Perspective The Asia–Pacific region is host to the most prolific users of cyber as a tool of statecraft, with China being the undisputed largest state sponsor of cyber attacks in the world. Many tensions in the region (exacerbated by extra-regional powers like the U.S.) have the potential to escalate into conflict, and most likely take place in cyberspace. While Beijing was stirring up trouble in the Philippine Sea, the China-affiliated APT; Mustang Panda, has been attacking governmental organizations in Manila. Researchers have also attributed three other campaigns from this summer, primarily singling out organizations in the South Pacific to the same Chinese APT. The campaigns leveraged legitimate software including Solid PDF Creator to sideload malicious files which cleverly impersonated legitimate Microsoft traffic for command-and-control connections. Mustang Panda, also tracked under the name Bronze President, has been active since at least 2012, orchestrating cyber espionage campaigns targeting both non-governmental organizations and government bodies across North America, Europe, and Asia. This year, Mustang Panda and other APTs have been focused on countries surrounding the South China Sea, where China presses territorial claims on countries like the Philippines, Vietnam or Indonesia, as well as on the United States, with which China is in conflict over primacy in the region and global affairs as a whole. Guam; a US territory in the Western Pacific that is home to significant US military bases, has allegedly been targeted. A joint advisory from all Five Eyes countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) reported a major Chinese cyberespionage operation that has reportedly succeeded in penetrating a range of US critical infrastructure sectors earlier this year. The attack is attributed to a Chinese APT known as Volt Typhoon, a group that has been active for at least two years. The industries of communications, manufacturing, utilities, transportation, construction, maritime industries, government, information technology, and education have all become targets of the observed campaign. The threat actor has likely been trying to conduct espionage and keep access without being discovered for as long as feasible, according to the observed behavior. Just recently, the Five Eyes issued another warning against, use of artificial intelligence in large scale Chinese hacking campaigns, given AI‘s potential to amplify and augment the threat. Chinese hackers have been mainly focusing on the defense industrial base, successfully compromising the networks of contractors to the Pentagon’s U.S. Transportation Command 20 times in a single year, while many other Cyber Defense eMagazine – January 2024 Edition 180 Copyright © 2024, Cyber Defense Magazine. All rights reserved worldwide.
incursions have probably never been found. Some researchers are also worried China is trying to position itself in a way it could try to paralyze U.S. critical infrastructure in case of an eruption of conflict between the two countries over the issue of Taiwanese or Philippine waters. External Threat Landscape Management (ETLM) The meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisco produced an agreement to partially restore previous channels of military-to-military communication, suspended by Beijing in August 2022. While resumption of some military-to-military dialogues is welcome, the agreement does not restore pre- 2020 levels of defense communication between the U.S. and China. More senior strategic defense policy dialogues, such as those previously held at the undersecretary or assistant secretary level, do not appear to have been restored. US officials blame China’s increasingly aggressive stance for more unsafe intercepts. Communication gaps amid tensions will hinder crisis de-escalation. Crisis prevention progress is elusive as both sides use military and cyber posturing, reflecting an intractable disagreement over Western Pacific operational rights. As Taiwan and the US approach presidential elections, the political climate will likely remain fraught with risks and tensions. China’s longstanding strategy of escalating actions appears poised for further intensification. The Chinese Communist Party backed Global Times has already predicted “more severe collisions,” and in the immediate future, there is a high probability that China will damage or sink a Philippine Coast Guard vessel or one of the smaller Philippine government-chartered vessels. Additionally, the heavily armed Chinese ships could fire warning shots to further demonstrate their growing determination, with other actions also possible. In such a tense environment, large state-sponsored cyberattacks remain a very real threat. About the Author Resident International Relations Analyst at Cyfirma, working for technology companies in Southeast Asia and the US since graduation from International Security Studies at Charles University in Prague in 2019. He focuses on international relations and security issues, especially on those revolving around West-East Stan can be reached online at (stan.vitek@cyfirma.com, https://twitter.com/FogOfWarCZ, etc..) and at our company website https://www.cyfirma.com Cyber Defense eMagazine – January 2024 Edition 181 Copyright © 2024, Cyber Defense Magazine. All rights reserved worldwide.
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