Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack

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Usual preface, sharing strictly and solely from a security POV to the exclusion of anything else : https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/trade_war_reaches_cyberspace/

World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace. … While this back and forth is poised to destroy trade between the two nations — and skyrocket consumer prices or cut off supplies entirely — there is a growing concern President Xi Jinping might call in his army of cyber-spies to support the People’s Republic. “China will retaliate with systemic cyber attacks as tensions simmer over,” cybersecurity advisor Tom Kellermann told The Register. “The typhoon campaigns have given them a robust foothold within critical infrastructure that will be used to launch destructive attacks. Trade wars were a historical instrument of soft power. Cyber is and will be the modern instrument of choice.” … “To the extent that China is holding back on conducting certain types of cyberattacks, it may feel less restrained now,” said Annie Fixler, director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at that Foundation for Defense of Democracies. …

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1) And in the meantime, the US cyber teams in DOD, Army, CISA, NSA, and so forth, have been stomped on…

Sad!

2) This bizarre world that we are in, when I saw your headline I thought it was about an actual physical typhoon. And who knows these days….

Somewhat-Reticent

Why should China bother with a cyber operation?
All they have to do is let well enough alone.

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Crazy thing is—due to software glitches—the new Tariffs are not even being collected.

Um, It Turns Out No One at the Ports Is Collecting Trump’s Tariffs
A technical “glitch” has created the biggest hiccup in Trump’s tariffs rollout.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch