Tonight’s episode of 60 minutes had 3 parts: 1) Claims that China hacked US electric and Water companies, 2) US stockmarket economy bubble, 3) interview with Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa aka Abu Mohammad al-Julani
The segment on the alleged China hack centers around a US Military General claiming that China wants to start a war with the US. Then they interview officials from Littleton Massachusetts over an alleged hack by Chinese hackers. The 60 minutes episode never names a group and blames the Chinese government for the hack.
On the website of Water company of Littleton Massachusetts, it says that they were hacked by a group name “Volt Typhoon” in November 2023.
Even if war with China were justified (it isn’t), I don’t know how anyone thinks we’re coming out of it alive. Even if we wipe out all of China and the US government is still somewhat intact, the devastation a nuclear exchange between two superpowers would cause is the end of human civilization. The US fires > China fires at the US and its allies > Isreal and US allies in Europe fire > Russia fires > Pakistan and India say “Why the hell not?”
Again, even if there are survivors, the entire global supply chain collapses. We’re lucky if the atmosphere is still there and hasn’t been ignited. Radiation kills everything not killed in the explosions.
incredibly exhausting. sorry if you’re also tired of this pasta but I couldn’t help it
Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.
why the fuck would the Chinese name a super hacker group “volt typhoon” instead of like idk something in Chinese that doesn’t give deus vult SS cracker vibes
It’s Microsoft’s internal name for an anonymous “advanced persistent threat” they suspect to be a Chinese military hacking group, but aren’t 100 percent sure. It has many other names given by other companies, it’s been around since at least 2021.
Wikipedia on the naming of Advanced Persistent Threats
Multiple organizations may assign different names to the same actor. As separate researchers could each have their own varying assessments of an APT group, companies such as CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, Mandiant, and Microsoft, among others, have their own internal naming schemes.[88] Names between different organizations may refer to overlapping but ultimately different groups, based on various data gathered.
CrowdStrike assigns animals by nation-state or other category, such as “Kitten” for Iran and “Spider” for groups focused on cybercrime. Other companies have named groups based on this system — Rampant Kitten, for instance, was named by Check Point rather than CrowdStrike.
Dragos bases its names for APT groups on minerals.
Mandiant assigns numbered acronyms in three categories, APT, FIN, and UNC, resulting in APT names like FIN7. Other companies using a similar system include Proofpoint (TA) and IBM (ITG and Hive).
Microsoft used to assign names from the periodic table, often stylized in all-caps (e.g. POTASSIUM); in April 2023, Microsoft changed its naming schema to use weather-based names (e.g. Volt Typhoon).
Tonight’s episode of 60 minutes had 3 parts: 1) Claims that China hacked US electric and Water companies, 2) US stockmarket economy bubble, 3) interview with Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa aka Abu Mohammad al-Julani
1 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-hacking-us-critical-infrastructure-retired-general-tim-haugh-warns-60-minutes-transcript/
2 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-boom-propping-up-economy-as-some-guardrails-coming-off-andrew-ross-sorkin-60-minutes-transcript/
3 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syrian-president-ahmed-al-sharaa-hopes-for-country-60-minutes-transcript/
The segment on the alleged China hack centers around a US Military General claiming that China wants to start a war with the US. Then they interview officials from Littleton Massachusetts over an alleged hack by Chinese hackers. The 60 minutes episode never names a group and blames the Chinese government for the hack.
On the website of Water company of Littleton Massachusetts, it says that they were hacked by a group name “Volt Typhoon” in November 2023.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250327112816/https://www.lelwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LELWD-Publicizes-Case-Study-on-Foreign-Hackers-Targeting-US-Utilites.pdf
In July 2024, China says that the Volt Typhoon story is a false flag narrative by the US government.
https://english.news.cn/20240708/c5bbaf6f8aa147d4a7f8998f6be65e37/c.html
Why didn’t CBS mention the name of the alleged Hacking Group in the episode? CBS is doing deception.
terroristfreedom fighter friend? He’s really good at ethnic cleansing.lmao, we are so far beyond parody folks.
The propaganda to manufacture war against China is so obvious but so, so many people will fall for it. It’s all so exhausting
Even if war with China were justified (it isn’t), I don’t know how anyone thinks we’re coming out of it alive. Even if we wipe out all of China and the US government is still somewhat intact, the devastation a nuclear exchange between two superpowers would cause is the end of human civilization. The US fires > China fires at the US and its allies > Isreal and US allies in Europe fire > Russia fires > Pakistan and India say “Why the hell not?”
Again, even if there are survivors, the entire global supply chain collapses. We’re lucky if the atmosphere is still there and hasn’t been ignited. Radiation kills everything not killed in the explosions.
i’m pretty sure that’s not a thing that’s going to happen, just billions dead, nuclear winter, and anyone left alive has a life expectancy in the 20s
incredibly exhausting. sorry if you’re also tired of this pasta but I couldn’t help it
why the fuck would the Chinese name a super hacker group “volt typhoon” instead of like idk something in Chinese that doesn’t give deus vult SS cracker vibes
It’s Microsoft’s internal name for an anonymous “advanced persistent threat” they suspect to be a Chinese military hacking group, but aren’t 100 percent sure. It has many other names given by other companies, it’s been around since at least 2021.
Wikipedia on the naming of Advanced Persistent Threats