The Hack That Made China a Superpower: Operation Shady Rat

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  • @cybernews
    @cybernews  Рік тому +479

    Let us know if you would like to see more explainers like this!

    • @michaelmayhem350
      @michaelmayhem350 Рік тому +5

      Why isn't Joe hosting this?

    • @cerealpeer
      @cerealpeer Рік тому +6

      now this is an explainer that i wanted to see

    • @ytg6663
      @ytg6663 Рік тому +2

      Yep. I love to watch explainers like these lengthy video > 20 min as movie 🍿😊😊

    • @ytg6663
      @ytg6663 Рік тому +1

      always

    • @amiyoghosh
      @amiyoghosh Рік тому +1

      I love it!

  • @mikelbrenn111
    @mikelbrenn111 Рік тому +1377

    Lockheed Martin billion dollar technology and yet bought an ebay network security.

    • @DoomCycle
      @DoomCycle 9 місяців тому +123

      Greed breeds stupidity

    • @isenewotheophilus6485
      @isenewotheophilus6485 9 місяців тому +92

      the biggest vulnerability in a system is humans

    • @heijimikata7181
      @heijimikata7181 8 місяців тому

      @@isenewotheophilus6485 And money. Once money is involved, a lot of things become clearer for people who want to investigate these strange “anomalies” in national security.

    • @RPcropland
      @RPcropland 7 місяців тому

      @@isenewotheophilus6485stupid humans not humans in general

    • @goolgal1638
      @goolgal1638 7 місяців тому

      If the us doesn't force a security standard, companies wont enforce it.

  • @terrywong7879
    @terrywong7879 Рік тому +1926

    You mean to tell me that NSA, PRISM and all the other hackers didn't catch that. The US budget is over 50 billion for US hackers. Other countries are better?

    • @clearheaded5696
      @clearheaded5696 Рік тому +655

      Well, this empire is very good in a few thing, namely writing story, telling it convincingly and make believe for their tax payer to support more money spent on new projects in the name of National Security, right.

    • @PriyanshuThakur-iv5ll
      @PriyanshuThakur-iv5ll Рік тому +195

      ​@@clearheaded5696huhh an American who knows truth

    • @waNErBOY
      @waNErBOY Рік тому +176

      you cant buy talent, the US has been trying to do so for long.

    • @foxtraner
      @foxtraner Рік тому +31

      dont take it seriously, reasoning with these people makes no sense, people only believe what they want to believe and content creator only wants money out of it.

    • @rv8804
      @rv8804 Рік тому +70

      Did u not watch the video? They specifically said that they knew about it when the Snowden leaks came out.

  • @banalresentive6523
    @banalresentive6523 11 місяців тому +911

    Regarding F35 design theft: When I worked for Defence companies, it was standard for all classified data and software to be stored on locked-down air-gapped systems. Avoiding those DOD mandates could get you free room and board at a federal facility for several years (IF you didn't have the right contacts, see case of Sandy Burger). Have the security rules been relaxed? Have we gotten that stupid? If this was willful stupidity on the part of Lockheed Martin staff, they should VERY PUBLICLY be convicted and sent to the Big House. I font

    • @banalresentive6523
      @banalresentive6523 11 місяців тому +34

      Continued - edit session was aborted somehow. I don't care if the top responsible person was the CEO of LM.

    • @beayn
      @beayn 11 місяців тому +65

      I believe it's usually mistakes. Temporary systems set up for testing purposes and forgetting to remove them.
      Files copied from air gaped server for research but forget to remove them from the connected server etc.
      That said I don't know what happened in this case.

    • @Megaawesomeguy
      @Megaawesomeguy 10 місяців тому

      Simple, you don't go after Lockheed you go after their part vendors. China realized that if you go after the small businesses that have a DoD connection you can effectively unveil all the parts and pieces that go into it. Don't try to steal the schematics for the radar system find the business that manufactures them for both Military and Civilian. Can't crack those guys? go for the ones that lost the contract to the other guys they're probably worse but it beats expending the billions in research that goes into it.
      Software is the biggest kicker and most likely the most secure, that's developed in house however with AI you can now supercharge it.
      China can copy American design and manufacturing but they're just cheating. They won't actually learn anything or why we developed or how which ironically makes them rely on the U.S.
      China is quite literally leeching off the money of the American tax payer

    • @Megaawesomeguy
      @Megaawesomeguy 10 місяців тому +100

      This all happened pre-Snowden before 2007 back when sub-contractors kept kicking the bucket in regards to security. When the F35 incident happened the DoD lost it's collective shit and cracked down.

    • @stussymishka
      @stussymishka 10 місяців тому +5

      yes makes me sick

  • @criptovida
    @criptovida Рік тому +753

    China became smarter when they started using local technology companies. The US still has higher access to other countries as they can inject any RAT along with Windows OS which the majority of countries do use in their critical infrastructures.

    • @douglascampbell4993
      @douglascampbell4993 Рік тому +1

      yeah the west doesnt work like that operationally. state and business isnt connected the way it is in say China, russia, North Korea etc. They dont have access to OS development at all, They have tried to have backdoor access for law inforcement but its just not a good business plan and customer confidence is king, so only an idiot would grant the government that kind of access! Just ask any Hong Kong citizen.. lmao..

    • @criptovida
      @criptovida Рік тому

      @@douglascampbell4993 Maybe not, but it's arguable. China does use some western cloud solutions like Azure but only hosted in Chinese data centers managed my Chinese companies.

    • @LeelaSlayys
      @LeelaSlayys Рік тому +116

      Heard of Linux? "Critical" infrastructures nowadays don't use good old Windows anymore

    • @criptovida
      @criptovida Рік тому

      You might be talking abou the west, I have worked in many emergent countries and most services do run on Windows even airports. FYI there are ATM machines running Windows XP still, many countries have stopped in the stone age.@@LeelaSlayys

    • @dsantos1624
      @dsantos1624 Рік тому +117

      ​@@LeelaSlayysThat would be good if people acted smart. And if there's something you cannot underestimate is human capacity to make stupid decision in key infrastructure

  • @nazmdar
    @nazmdar 10 місяців тому +395

    This is exactly what US has done to Iran by developing Stuxnet worm. It was one of the most sophisticated attacks to the control system of an industrial plant.

    • @shinigamirenegade
      @shinigamirenegade 8 місяців тому +8

      Boy sheer havoc. Darknet diaries episode was crazy.

    • @axenik
      @axenik 8 місяців тому

      Iranian nuclear development is hardly a positive and beneficial organization as U.S. industries.

    • @kentlu4781
      @kentlu4781 8 місяців тому +49

      NSA: focus on hacking others, too busy to take care of the domestic cybersecurity🐶😎

    • @adreiiaii510
      @adreiiaii510 6 місяців тому

      @@kentlu4781 In fairness to NSA employees, this isn't really their fault.
      The NSA is structured as a surveillance and code-breaking agency. That's *all* they do.
      The NSA works with US Cyber Command to engage in Offensive Security practices (as well as conduct Cyber Warfare Operations, but... shh, they aren't supposed to do that).
      CISA (CyberSecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) is the agency responsible for US Federal Cyber Security and infrastructure.

    • @OEFarredondo
      @OEFarredondo 6 місяців тому +10

      This seems far worse. One factory in Iran vs thousands of stolen industrial secrets...

  • @wavydavy9816
    @wavydavy9816 11 місяців тому +848

    Every single one of these companies could have avoided all this trouble by spending more money on security rather than just 'hoping' that the measures they had in place would be good enough.

    • @jordanedmond5618
      @jordanedmond5618 11 місяців тому +2

      Or simply cut off China from the internet, and block all access from China to the US

    • @EB-73-
      @EB-73- 11 місяців тому +75

      Very ignorant comment. The age old adage rings true, if you build it, they will come.
      This isn't ancient China with Mongols on horseback. The threat, as was just explained to you, is persistent, and ever evolving.
      Cold war never ended mate.

    • @wavydavy9816
      @wavydavy9816 11 місяців тому +28

      @@EB-73- Excuses excuses.
      Being proactive costs money so there's a cut off point where companies know that they need security but it's cheaper to just cross your fingers, hope for the best, and pay off individuals who _do_ get screwed over.
      Or, if you like, you can just pretend that doesn't happen.
      Very ignorant comment 😂

    • @EB-73-
      @EB-73- 11 місяців тому +58

      @@wavydavy9816 Point being is that security itself is an illusion. As you so kindly point out, no amount of money is ever enough. At some point you HAVE to cross your fingers and call it good.
      If you want the gods honest truth, the best security would have been not to go digital in the first place. Or maintain a closed loop system. Both of which cost next to nothing by comparison.
      Once you open yourself up to attack it's impossible to ever say with certainty that it won't come.
      Perhaps that concept is a bit difficult for you to reconcile.

    • @wavydavy9816
      @wavydavy9816 11 місяців тому

      @@EB-73- I own a nice motorbike which I have to park on the street.
      I have done everything possible to make sure that nobody can steal my motorbike and get away with it.
      It has taken a lot of money and effort to get to that stage, some might even say that I've gone too far with my security (which, admittedly, makes it slightly inconvenient to use my motorbike).
      A team of people who specifically set out to steal _my_ motorbike and circumvent the various devices fitted would indeed be able to steal it, given an unrealistic amount of time, then they'd have to store it underground to stop the tracker working to avoid recovery
      I can confidently say that I'm not worried about my bike being stolen, because I've taken those measures myself, and that's being pro-active. I can measure the amount of hassle potential bike thieves face compared to how much profit they are likely to make, seee the cut off point and act accordingly.
      Banks and other financial institiutions definitely don't care about their customer's investments as much as I care about my motorbike, and THAT'S the difference.
      If they _really_ wanted to they could do it no problem 🤷‍♂

  • @railfan_3371
    @railfan_3371 Рік тому +219

    Who had the "brilliant" idea of hooking up the controls of the most important infrastructure in the world to the internet?

    • @notanymore9471
      @notanymore9471 Рік тому +35

      Well it’s mostly engineering portals for remote access and monitoring of systems. But security is often light or non existent in these areas.

    • @realmemegalactic
      @realmemegalactic 11 місяців тому +10

      Bill gates

    • @sepg5084
      @sepg5084 11 місяців тому +11

      ​@@realmemegalacticand the Bush republican government.

    • @kanalisationerstellen
      @kanalisationerstellen 11 місяців тому +11

      the IT departments that get paid by American companies i feel like to put everything into the cloud :)

    • @Heeroyui752
      @Heeroyui752 10 місяців тому +10

      Remote monitoring is needed to catch problems before they start impacting public health.

  • @mykey49
    @mykey49 6 місяців тому +95

    At the same time there was a purge of all CIA human assets in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. The US has never recovered since again.

    • @diro5910
      @diro5910 5 місяців тому +15

      Based

    • @CormanoWild
      @CormanoWild 3 місяці тому +8

      Based

    • @vnzstz209
      @vnzstz209 2 місяці тому +6

      Based

    • @izaiahmarroquin596
      @izaiahmarroquin596 2 місяці тому

      Biggest story slept on before Trump even got mentioned. I remember feeling so ashamed just reading in it through middle school, knowing that the kids around me had no clue what that meant for China's supremecy in Information warfare. To me, it signaled a ton of corruption had to be in place for this purge & ip theft to happen. Sure enough, our politicians been in bed, married to & served by Chinese agents all over in 2024. Meanwhile we save them years & millions worth in R&D.

    • @RjVal-w5b
      @RjVal-w5b 2 місяці тому +1

      Nahh no evidence of it

  • @mchammer3927
    @mchammer3927 Рік тому +728

    I'm sure we never spy on any body ....

    • @Ahoooooooo
      @Ahoooooooo Рік тому +209

      😂 i am thinking the same ....
      The US is only sour because someone else did it better .
      Or they are playing the moral card , because no one has caught them yet 😅 .

    • @DAlfaro-g1f
      @DAlfaro-g1f Рік тому +3

      😂

    • @orbitaldebri66
      @orbitaldebri66 Рік тому

      Oh it's a given, we absolutely haven't spied on anyone.....😈👿🫅👿😈

    • @douglascampbell4993
      @douglascampbell4993 Рік тому +34

      @@Ahoooooooo lol.. Yeah we definitely should have just left the Japanese to keep doing their thing back in world war two.. 🤣😅

    • @GTFO_0
      @GTFO_0 Рік тому

      I mean china just caught spies of cia just a couple of days back 😂

  • @davejoseph5615
    @davejoseph5615 10 місяців тому +36

    Why would anyone be dumb enough to ask the e-mail sender if the file attachment is legit?

    • @qdaniele97
      @qdaniele97 10 місяців тому +10

      There is (or was) plenty of troians that used to spread themselves by running through yous email contacts and sending copies of itself to them.
      But they obviously weren't able to properly reply to a question like a human would.
      Those poor guys thougth the person on the other side was one of their collegues and asked if they were the ones that sent the mail and not some software, when they found that they were talking to an actual human everything suddenly seemed fine to them.

  • @nameismetatoo4591
    @nameismetatoo4591 10 місяців тому +70

    I'd be willing to be that most of these companies/organizations that were victims of Shady Rat had at least one employee raise concerns about their poor infosec to a superior, and were promptly ignored. The people in charge often don't understand anything about this kind of stuff, and don't like it when someone below them knows more than they do. Thankfully that's been slowly changing over the last decade, but it's always going to be a problem to some extent.

    • @eskileriksson4457
      @eskileriksson4457 9 місяців тому +3

      It's the Dunning-Kruger effect. Which will never go away, unless we let AI run the show.

    • @truthboom
      @truthboom 5 місяців тому

      @@eskileriksson4457 they will just use quantum computer boosted AI to override the other AI

  • @blehbleh9283
    @blehbleh9283 10 місяців тому +119

    10:51 hilarious that this is presented as a logical fallacy in the context of geopolitics. If you're a global power, you should be hacking, and hacking well

    • @vaakdemandante8772
      @vaakdemandante8772 10 місяців тому

      @@albertkirilov6921 what is there more to say? Nations that matter on the world stage are doing hacking regardless of any laws, either domestic or international. Just because some official document states they aren't means nothing. I mean, maybe it does to the gullible public but not to the people who are in the know.

    • @nodaxxing
      @nodaxxing 10 місяців тому +15

      Logical fallacies were originally designed by Aristotle cuz he was essentially a Destiny debate-lord. He’d go to public squares to debate people and put both their social reputation on the line, and you can imagine who won the most. their purpose is not to prove anything or make any sort of meaningful point, it is to discredit the opposing sides point without actually attacking it, just the logical structure of it; which is different than saying something is illogical. Way too many people equate logical fallacies with illogical. Illogical means that there are missing steps, claims of logical fallacies attack the steps you are taking instead of the destination. Claiming that something is a logical fallacy might win over the majority of people, but in any sort of competition you want to be doing as much if not more than your opponent. Good fear mongering though keep it up 🎉

    • @salj.5459
      @salj.5459 10 місяців тому +10

      @@nodaxxingSocrates was the original annoying debate lord. He was so hated he got killed for it

    • @nicholaspearse2222
      @nicholaspearse2222 10 місяців тому +4

      @@nodaxxingall that typing for a fallacy fallacy 😂😂😂

    • @HughEtl
      @HughEtl 10 місяців тому

      @@nodaxxingdo you not agree with his statement tho

  • @hdogdizzy720
    @hdogdizzy720 Рік тому +330

    Please post more content like this weekly.

    • @hdogdizzy720
      @hdogdizzy720 Рік тому +4

      Wonderful video

    • @Andreas_linden
      @Andreas_linden Рік тому +10

      Work 24/7 😂😂

    • @neanda
      @neanda 11 місяців тому +3

      100% agree, thiis one of the best videos i've seen in a long time

    • @SpunckyJew6969
      @SpunckyJew6969 10 місяців тому

      ​@@Andreas_linden serve the hive mind, right? Not a chance, I say. Ridiculous

  • @smokinjoe6911
    @smokinjoe6911 10 місяців тому +45

    We do not have to put our infrastructure on the net to begin with. Seems to be a security risk easily explored. Why risk National Security for convenience?!?

    • @michaelpelzek8882
      @michaelpelzek8882 10 місяців тому +8

      Exactly! I saw somebody say, well it stifles innovation. Maybe, but I would rather it take an extra year or two then have our enemies also be able to use the same weapons technology we do. You cant have it both ways.

    • @isa_L
      @isa_L 2 місяці тому

      like when Biden open the Border?

    • @unflexian
      @unflexian 29 днів тому

      for power, fast reaction to failures stops the load from causing more failures and it cascading into a blackout like what happened in 2003.

  • @smallpeople172
    @smallpeople172 Рік тому +184

    That Lockheed Martin employees face when he found out what happened must have been… *chefs kiss*

    • @neanda
      @neanda 11 місяців тому +29

      i was thinking that too, he just gave the chinese the plans for their most advanced fighter jet. i'm sure he left that accomplishment out of his CV

    • @smallpeople172
      @smallpeople172 11 місяців тому +25

      @@neanda reminds me of the NASA intern who dropped a wrench six stories down onto the Shuttle heat shield, causing millions in damages and weeks in repairs. Guy was fired before he got off the elevator.

    • @beayn
      @beayn 11 місяців тому +9

      I'm guessing the person who clicked the mail wasn't the only one at fault. Someone left the plans in a place that was easily accessible as well. It's nearly always a series of mistakes.

    • @twavee
      @twavee 10 місяців тому +4

      @@smallpeople172 Those two don't compare well. One could be interpreted as a civil mistake for civil penalties, and the other can be interpreted as being traitorous.

    • @smallpeople172
      @smallpeople172 10 місяців тому +2

      @@twavee interpretation depends on intent

  • @rschloch
    @rschloch 11 місяців тому +79

    That screensaver sound laughable, but I worked for a company who had a corporate screensaver.

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 10 місяців тому +10

      It's baffling how many "advanced" and highly educated users fall for the most basic social engineering. People can be absolutely brilliant and yet completely naive and ignorant.

    • @rschloch
      @rschloch 10 місяців тому

      @@Dwigt_Rortugal yeah. I think a lot of people are in „get it done mode“ and mindlessly click m-on and react-to every email.

    • @a8f235
      @a8f235 9 місяців тому

      @@Dwigt_Rortugal CuteCatVideo.exe just install...Uhm, I mean just open a watch 🤨😅 Yup, there's no shortage of naiv people so hackers or scammers don't need much of a brain at all. They just hammer out the same bs by the millions, and they know they will have positive hits even how foolish it is.

    • @jyy9624
      @jyy9624 8 місяців тому

      It's like a website cypher

    • @kneau
      @kneau 4 місяці тому

      @@Dwigt_Rortugal I blame blind adherence to Occam's razor.

  • @SirMichaelFoxtrot
    @SirMichaelFoxtrot 10 місяців тому +21

    3:30 - RuneScape Dragon Scimitar haha.. brings back memories

    • @JoeRogansForehead
      @JoeRogansForehead 8 місяців тому +1

      Haha screw doing Monkey Madness to wield that thing

  • @davecullins1606
    @davecullins1606 10 місяців тому +154

    At this point it must ironically be safer to just store the most important and most classified information solely in a seriously sealed chamber, that almost nobody knows about, underground with meters thick concrete walls. No copy on any computer at all.
    It's probably how some of those things are already being handled.

    • @misosalmonfromthecheesecak3387
      @misosalmonfromthecheesecak3387 10 місяців тому +18

      B21 bomber schematics and nuclear secrets I reckon

    • @TheBorg01
      @TheBorg01 10 місяців тому +7

      even the electric cable one day will be used to hack machines so it would have to be off the grid too lol

    • @dzungtran314
      @dzungtran314 10 місяців тому +27

      But doing so makes it impossible for our own scientists to learn and improve upon those designs. Science progress depends on collaboration. So there is no easy way

    • @rdablock
      @rdablock 10 місяців тому

      I mean the leak benefits everyone. The Chinese get their blueprints and the DoD and MIC gets to bang their drums to the tunes of trillions

    • @twenty-fifth420
      @twenty-fifth420 10 місяців тому

      ⁠@@dzungtran314I mean, it depends. Scientists didn’t seem to have a problem innovating a literal bombshell in the Manhattan Project. That isn’t the issue though, I think you missed it.
      The issue is if you have any classified information, one that is a cognito hazard to the public at large, then you by definition trying to hide information. Scientists or not. Even politicians or not. You have to be either high up with the DOD, the FBI/CIA or the Armed Forces if it were a serious piece of information.
      The most secure location if you can’t encrypt your own data and protect it is ironically what OP said. A locked cabinet no one knows about. Data sanitation and security is still hard for the average person, it is why security researchers and scientists often raise the alarm when breaches in any network, private or public is made especially with Malware and Phishing.

  • @LearningProbably
    @LearningProbably 4 місяці тому +6

    This is crazy. I had no idea I was so smart and so ahead of these methods when I was only six years old.

  • @wseam1
    @wseam1 10 місяців тому +72

    TL;DR they aren’t that smart, we’re just that stupid.

  • @yesmhm69
    @yesmhm69 10 місяців тому +13

    All infrastructure should have analog redundancy if not be entirely non-network

  • @cassiopesysg5423
    @cassiopesysg5423 10 місяців тому +25

    As a Shanghaiese I'm quite surprised to see they're actually doing such big things in that building.

  • @williamwatitwa3534
    @williamwatitwa3534 7 місяців тому +69

    Why is it that attacks from us and europe are called trolls but the rest are named "countries attacking"

    • @anklux1649
      @anklux1649 4 місяці тому +8

      Coz that's a friendly fire

    • @dracoborne2648
      @dracoborne2648 3 місяці тому +17

      Because the uploader obviously has a western bias. Most YT do.

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 3 місяці тому

      ​@@dracoborne2648Because it isnt the AIVD or MI6 doing the hacking its random civilains hence 'trolls' as a term
      Wtf does the intelligence agency of Holland need info from a waterplant from?

    • @justanghozzst8218
      @justanghozzst8218 Місяць тому

      They don't call them trolls, they call them hackers

  • @matthewexline6589
    @matthewexline6589 10 місяців тому +68

    Roman proverb: "Opportunity makes the thief.". As long as America continues to blame other countries for it's own shortcomings progress won't come. Face facts: You're responsible for your own vulnerabilities.

    • @supadupahilton6848
      @supadupahilton6848 5 місяців тому

      Wow. Wumao's getting all agro!

    • @vb9950
      @vb9950 4 місяці тому

      America is itself a big thief if you don't know. They grew on British patents.

    • @RobinTheBot
      @RobinTheBot 2 місяці тому +1

      It's the truth. If you don't lock your doors it's on you when the thief gets in easy.
      But blaming others is our way. If not foreigners, some minority here in the US, but never the people in charge who are obviously to blame. They're rich and get extra rights you see.

    • @dunzhen
      @dunzhen Місяць тому

      @supadupahilton6848 You need to evolve and transcend above that programmed response. Not immediately turning rabid and repeating US state department, and indeed NORMIE rhetoric is based. The calm person who can see things clearly is more sophisticated than someone who hears China and says "wumao".

  • @MicheleDamato-co7vh
    @MicheleDamato-co7vh 7 місяців тому +4

    Considering America is the leader in hacking, I don't understand the storyline... whoever rules technology rules the world.....

  • @harmonicspice2536
    @harmonicspice2536 10 місяців тому +42

    I didn't get the fallacy part? Why is the argument wrong? " If the US conducts them, why shouldn't we " 10:53

    • @s.v.discussion8665
      @s.v.discussion8665 8 місяців тому +13

      It is not.

    • @andrewzhao444
      @andrewzhao444 8 місяців тому +16

      It is a fallacy on an individual moral level. Assuming that an action is immoral, other people being immoral does not change that fact. This is true for criminals, for example. Other criminals existing does not absolve any person of their crimes.
      It is a fair argument on a social level. The argument distilled is that one party is being unequally held accountable for an action that everyone does. Typically these actions are wrong on an individual level, but necessary evils on country level. All countries kill people. If you only ever target one country for killing people, that is not a fair criticism, but just a social attack.

    • @wasd____
      @wasd____ 4 місяці тому +4

      @@andrewzhao444 If you're going to argue that there are "necessary evils on a country level," then the hypocrisy of targeting one country unequally in order to advance some sort of goal or interest can itself also be justified as being one of those "necessarily evils."

    • @sheepketchup9059
      @sheepketchup9059 3 місяці тому

      ​@@wasd____ hypocrisy cannot be "justified" because it's a logical contradiction, not an immorality that can be excused away as a necessary evil

    • @sheepketchup9059
      @sheepketchup9059 3 місяці тому

      The thing is America doesn't actually have a problem with the action, if America do have a problem with it then America wouldn't have been doing it, the fact is that America had a problem with who is doing it, the enemy

  • @Swess2908
    @Swess2908 10 місяців тому +97

    China has a point there. If someone else does it why cant they.

    • @rallinrallen8040
      @rallinrallen8040 5 місяців тому +20

      As long as you are a nuclear threat then you can do what ever you want

    • @EM-oe2lz
      @EM-oe2lz 5 місяців тому +7

      @@rallinrallen8040 Actually true

    • @sheepketchup9059
      @sheepketchup9059 3 місяці тому

      America doesn't actually have a problem with the action itself, heck America itself is doing the exact same thing, it's just that they had a problem with who is doing it, the enemy

    • @ian-tumulak
      @ian-tumulak 2 місяці тому +2

      It reflects their industry mantra. They are always counterfeiting from luxuxy brand items to fast food. Brands don't matter as long no on bother and cared.

    • @hhjklklop
      @hhjklklop 2 місяці тому

      @@ian-tumulak "counterfeiting" lol the small timers yes but big daddy oh no he makes better and wipes you XDDDDD

  • @CanadianFitted
    @CanadianFitted Рік тому +157

    Great video brother 🔥 Been trying to tell people about this for years , the Chinese are also hyper focused on a quantum computer, pouring more resources and money into the project than anyone else. You could probably speculate the implications of that more than I could but it’s not great 😁

    • @賴志偉-d7h
      @賴志偉-d7h Рік тому +13

      It would be analogous to the cracking of the Enigma and JN25 codes.

    • @kylorenkardashian79
      @kylorenkardashian79 11 місяців тому +16

      they already have it, it's called Jiuzhang1 & Jiuzhang2.
      their quantum computer is different than ours, they use lasers & mirrors, it's a double slit delayed choice setup on steroids

    • @neanda
      @neanda 11 місяців тому +2

      @@kylorenkardashian79 omg i'll have to find out more about this. i like that analogy

    • @shashankdixit8949
      @shashankdixit8949 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@kylorenkardashian79 nobody has a quantum computer lol it would take another 20 years to have one

    • @Jem_Apple
      @Jem_Apple 11 місяців тому

      ⁠@@shashankdixit8949literally every major player has quantum computers. U can even get access online 😂

  • @universemath
    @universemath Рік тому +77

    love the storytelling and the narration

    • @cybernews
      @cybernews  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for the kind words!

    • @2HN.
      @2HN. Рік тому +3

      @@cybernews 7:00 "Their attacks were brazen and aggressive. Relying more on poor cybersecurity of victims..."
      So, it was just a marketing stunt for antivirus software companies?

  • @MrNedinator
    @MrNedinator 11 місяців тому +22

    love the dragon scimmy as the cursor lmao. reminds me of the old hack videos on YT back in 2010ish era :P

  • @flyinghippo519
    @flyinghippo519 Рік тому +35

    “There is no honour among thieves”.

    • @bluesclues132
      @bluesclues132 6 місяців тому

      @mugbeer9440 already there - next stage is making it profitable and building brands .

  • @HumbleHuman-k7g
    @HumbleHuman-k7g Рік тому +107

    Moral of the story, never ever use Windows OS for the work!

    • @edgeldine3499
      @edgeldine3499 6 місяців тому +8

      It would have still happened... Why? Because people still clicked on the emails.

    • @Curb65-f3r
      @Curb65-f3r 6 місяців тому +14

      Linux is not 100% immune. But it is way better than Windows. I've seen even some ATM machines running on Windows XP.

    • @Vivi-xn9iz
      @Vivi-xn9iz 5 місяців тому

      @@Curb65-f3r most ATM machines run on windows XP. In fact, a grand majority of similar systems run on windows XP

    • @chawlagrv
      @chawlagrv 5 місяців тому +2

      if your computer has access to internet and ability to run background job, it doesn't matter what OS you are on.

    • @iury472
      @iury472 5 місяців тому +2

      This would will happen in any os. The problem is not the os is people installing and clicking in shit that they are not supposed too.

  • @Ricky-pz4di
    @Ricky-pz4di Рік тому +54

    Please more of this! If possible even a bit technical (imo)

  • @Kekoa1207
    @Kekoa1207 10 місяців тому +16

    Got my sub on the first vid. The visuals, even the simple ones, were really insightful

  • @redcat4321
    @redcat4321 8 місяців тому +3

    Why don’t they just disconnect from internet?? Can’t get hacked if there is no connection to outside.

  • @Nohandleyetf
    @Nohandleyetf 10 місяців тому +24

    me: why are you avoiding my messages?
    her: I am taking counter measurements against Chinese spies.

  • @zan6585
    @zan6585 3 місяці тому +2

    It's interesting that simply from a numbers standpoint, China has an insane advantage. The more people you have, the more hackers, the more geniuses, etc.

    • @justanghozzst8218
      @justanghozzst8218 Місяць тому

      That would be fair but about a billion in China are in the mainland away from that sort of education.

  • @mort_brain
    @mort_brain Рік тому +31

    A great little documentary! A++

  • @ottotheorange14
    @ottotheorange14 21 день тому +1

    In what way is "if the US engages in cyberattacks, why shouldn't we?" a logical fallacy? Genuinely asking, seems like a perfectly reasonable question.

  • @elevationsickness8462
    @elevationsickness8462 11 місяців тому +19

    The f35 being stolen is such a massive L considering the whole point is how computerized and it is. Why didnt we listen to Battlestar Galactica😭

    • @erickgonzalez4698
      @erickgonzalez4698 11 місяців тому

      Battlestar? What do you mean?

    • @jan.tichavsky
      @jan.tichavsky 10 місяців тому +7

      I don't think so. You can steal the hardware blueprints but getting the software and getting it working on copied hardware is much harder, not to mention you won't get any updates. Which why is Tesla vetting on fast innovation. By the time someone else copies their hardware and software it's already obsolete. And they certainly won't copy the massive servers for training and collecting data using another custom architecture.

    • @Gongolongo
      @Gongolongo 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@@jan.tichavsky they did get the software at the time too

  • @Drenicite
    @Drenicite 10 місяців тому +3

    Treat research sounds like a sweet gig

  • @SysOpQueen
    @SysOpQueen 2 місяці тому +1

    the runescape dragon scimitar cursor made me laugh so hard, beautiful little detail

  • @aleksandarjokic2918
    @aleksandarjokic2918 Рік тому +14

    the americans have been doing it for decades, they taught them to do it. what are you wondering now

  • @lmlm1234ful
    @lmlm1234ful Рік тому +9

    This is the Art of War!

  • @merounkidi8037
    @merounkidi8037 Рік тому +15

    their master was an executed criminal wanted by the FBI Known as Kidi Menta Marius aka jay chesavage in Palo Alto, CA 3833 Middlefield road, palo alto working for the Chinese military to steal intellectual property. his legal age: born in November 1985, Touboro, Cameroon

  • @fpxy00
    @fpxy00 11 місяців тому +9

    Nobody does this better than US gov. through its big tech companies.

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 4 місяці тому

      Whataboutism is hereabouts.

  • @ParitoshTripathiOfficial
    @ParitoshTripathiOfficial Рік тому +10

    back again, always like these type of vids.

  • @evolution686us
    @evolution686us 11 місяців тому +7

    CIA does this all the time

  • @HreForTheMusic
    @HreForTheMusic 11 місяців тому +4

    If you enjoyed this you ahould read 'this is how they tell me the world ends'. It covers this an a whole lot more about the cyber arms race

  • @neanda
    @neanda 11 місяців тому +30

    i hope this video and your channel gets to millions as it's info people and companies definately need to know.
    what an amazing video, best i've seen in a long time in terms of the insights and high production quality. this was quite an adveture. please do more like this, i'm gonna spend some time binging on your channel as I just discovered it today (and i'm in the tech iindustry as it's defo my kind of thing)

  • @sam37io
    @sam37io 10 місяців тому +5

    There are always holes in the infrastructure created by people. It is a difficult problem. The only way is reduce the attack surface, isolate data within a secure network and make convenience non existent. Only allow downstream traffic. Encryption at rest and transit between internal services. These are the things i can think about.

  • @Cybersawz
    @Cybersawz Рік тому +15

    Awesome narration and video content! Subscribed!

  • @factsoverfeelings1776
    @factsoverfeelings1776 Рік тому +19

    Western nations using it for manufacturing made it a super power.

  • @agon19
    @agon19 11 місяців тому +24

    Our data 😊
    Joke aside, I don't see how this operation made China a superpower - the video goes a long way to explain the operation, but not to explain its economic effects and how they played out, besides 2 points in the video where it makes use of correlation and many asumptions but just leaving more questions unanswered: how has this operation played out to make China a superpower? I'm sure the data stolen played a role in a multitude of factors, but I highly doubt its effect was proportionally significant. Not only is China a vastly different country, with its own history, economic status and system (therefore requiring customized policies and can't be reliant on someone else's specific data), but data has been stolen before and it didn't boom other countries into superpower status

    • @bigmedge
      @bigmedge 11 місяців тому

      what the hell does a country's history have to do with the design of an industrial product ?
      There was no need to go deep into it b/c the answer is obvious to anyone with even the slightest common sense - the stolen IP was used to create cheap replicas of said IP . The only things the Chinese paid for was the production machinery to mass produce said cheap replicas

    • @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367
      @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 11 місяців тому +5

      Its called click bait buddy.. Welcome to the internet..

    • @applepie4287
      @applepie4287 10 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for stating that saved me the trouble of watching the video. I don't mind if it talked about other things but if the video doesn't answer the question then I'm not going to watch it further.

    • @obehiokojie4066
      @obehiokojie4066 10 місяців тому

      If the stealing of US IP by China had not significantly impacted its technological advancement, the US government would not be worried. How can anyone not see the technological strides of China in various domains? Baffling.

    • @Handlelesswithme
      @Handlelesswithme 9 місяців тому +1

      12:32?

  • @davidjrb
    @davidjrb Рік тому +17

    That was awesome. Really enjoyed it

  • @mehranale770
    @mehranale770 3 місяці тому

    This is the pure example of simplicity beating complexity

  • @felixkiprop48
    @felixkiprop48 Рік тому +19

    How do you make such clip? the edit is perfect. Great video.

    • @cybernews
      @cybernews  Рік тому +4

      Thank you so much for the feedback!

  • @konstantinrebrov675
    @konstantinrebrov675 11 місяців тому +10

    Such is the meaning of cold and ruthless pragmatism.

  • @zapoyou2
    @zapoyou2 10 місяців тому +14

    3:30 with the RuneScape dragon scimitar 😂😂😂

  • @thelonewrangler1008
    @thelonewrangler1008 Рік тому +10

    I cant help but be slightly concerned for the future when the US education sytem is failing in so many ways

    • @kentershackle1329
      @kentershackle1329 11 місяців тому +2

      Slightly? Ya should be panicking...
      They are producing 1.2 million degree + 75k STEM PhD grads per year... mate.
      correction : 4.2 bachelor's grads , 1.2 of it are Engineering..

    • @emeraldlucky1274
      @emeraldlucky1274 10 місяців тому +4

      ​@@kentershackle1329 Meanwhile the US is making gender studies PHD 😂😂

    • @PleaseGetReal
      @PleaseGetReal 9 місяців тому

      @@emeraldlucky1274
      And Ph D in African studies !
      Australia is also doing a lot of research on Aboriginal studies.
      Now the first few units of a bachelor degree in Australia has to teach something about the abos !

  • @GauravKumar-fj7tp
    @GauravKumar-fj7tp 11 місяців тому +27

    😂 I always thought that there was some high level shit going on with Lockheed but now I laugh looking at this

  • @noneofyourbusiness8625
    @noneofyourbusiness8625 7 місяців тому

    Omg that dscim 07 scape cursor brought me back to my childhood 😢😢😢😢 custom moparscape clients makes me wanna cry a bit

  • @GarethDavidson
    @GarethDavidson 10 місяців тому +12

    This could be solved by just making external hack attacks that do crypto mining but no damage or info theft are civil matters, not criminal, and any company that is hacked must report the intrusion or face huge fines. A free for all that forces everyone to tighten security overnight

  • @TobiKellner
    @TobiKellner 6 місяців тому +7

    How exactly is "The US is doing it, so why shouldn't we?" a logical fallacy?

    • @nikolatasev4948
      @nikolatasev4948 4 місяці тому +1

      Well, according to Article 1 of the Might-Makes-Right universally accepted international treaty, USA and their allies have might so they are right, and therefore can not do wrong even when they hack or participate in gross human rights violations.
      China is not as strong, therefore are not allowed to do any of that.
      I hope I managed to help clear any confusion.
      Thank God for Rules-Based International Order. Can you imagine what anarchy we would have without it?

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 4 місяці тому +1

      Because it's like saying, "Well I robbed a bank, but Jesse James also robbed a bank so therefore I shouldn't be charged." Aka, "whataboutism."

    • @nikolatasev4948
      @nikolatasev4948 4 місяці тому +1

      @@guydreamr The Jesse James comparison would only work if Jesse James was not persecuted for robbing banks. He was.
      This is more of "Some nations are allowed and even encouraged to do bad stuff, while everyone else is not".
      I'm all for keeping everyone accountable for their actions. But right now (well, in the entire history of humanity, honestly) the strong nations can do whatever they want, and everyone else needs to cope. I get that. What I can't stand is the insane hypocrisy of USA repeating 'rules-based international order' while breaking the rules and also shielding allies from accountability.
      This is not how you get others to behave responsibly. This is how you incentivize them to become militarily strong enough to be untouchable.

    • @hhjklklop
      @hhjklklop 2 місяці тому

      @@guydreamr nothing about it is "whataboutism" when the US was outed for it recently for spying even on friends

  • @DeadSezSo
    @DeadSezSo 8 місяців тому

    Man, you sure know how to tell a story. That intro was perfect: tells its own short story, grabs your attention, piques your curiosity then abruptly ends just as it reveals an answer that only raises more questions and increases the mystique...first video of yours I've watched but I was just blown away immediately. Not my typical content but you've got a new subscriber here!

  • @BetaProductionz
    @BetaProductionz Рік тому +58

    “This is CEO open file” is the Chinese equivalent of “show bobs” lol

    • @GTFO_0
      @GTFO_0 Рік тому +7

      😭😭lmao i can't 😂😂😂bro comon
      Don't have to Do our indian broa like that

    • @PluetoeInc.
      @PluetoeInc. 11 місяців тому

      ​@@GTFO_0 💀 OP is dumb af and he knows it look at his pfn , but the broken English part is legit tho

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 11 місяців тому

      *shows boobs*

  • @hawaiixtc
    @hawaiixtc Місяць тому

    I live in Hawaii and the Chinese are big property owners here. Big Chinese investment groups are aggressively building massive high rises here, and raising property prices quickly. There is no longer an affordable middle income home, condo, or doghouse.

  • @josephbiturus4409
    @josephbiturus4409 11 місяців тому +33

    Mrs Moraine the bitcoin trader is legit and her method works like magic I keep on earning every single week with her new strategy

    • @philipgrombliniak5651
      @philipgrombliniak5651 11 місяців тому

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    • @philipgrombliniak5651
      @philipgrombliniak5651 11 місяців тому

      She helped me recover what I lost trying to trade my self

    • @ralucaapostol4652
      @ralucaapostol4652 11 місяців тому

      She's really amazing with her skills. She changed my 0.5btc to 2.1btc

    • @sophieberen883
      @sophieberen883 11 місяців тому

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    • @karenshackleton6053
      @karenshackleton6053 11 місяців тому

      I still wonder how she gets her analysis, I got profit of $28, 609 with a capital of $4000 in 16 days of trading with her

  • @lance4276
    @lance4276 2 місяці тому +1

    7:12 "hello this is ceo" 💀

  • @ytg6663
    @ytg6663 Рік тому +7

    Awesome Explainer video. 👍👍👍

  • @agps4418
    @agps4418 3 місяці тому +1

    so basically if you're powerful enough you are really untouchable. it's easy to see how lives become very cheap, chaos is imminent

  • @DotADBX
    @DotADBX 10 місяців тому +4

    Its why critical infrastructure and military assets should always be on a air gapped network, additionally having a fake network that lets you track your would be attackers and in turn hack them back is an ideal strategy

    • @wecx2375
      @wecx2375 9 місяців тому

      Nobody really cares.

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 4 місяці тому

      @@wecx2375 Speak for yourself.

  • @ryelor123
    @ryelor123 6 місяців тому

    Literally the best argument for staying away from the metric system. Let them have to deal with all the unit conversion.

  • @flyingllama87
    @flyingllama87 Рік тому +7

    Awesome Content. More like this.

  • @Mark_nobody3
    @Mark_nobody3 10 місяців тому +5

    To sum it up
    “Thanks for giving me the keys to your house and now your system is mine”

  • @hk_brit_fisher
    @hk_brit_fisher 19 днів тому +1

    The F-35 is too advanced, it may took 30 years for China to catch up and the US having incentive to get a new one, just imagine a light bulb that lasts 30 years, that's no good for business. Hence, the NGAD program.

  • @merounkidi8037
    @merounkidi8037 Рік тому +5

    the rats are in Palo Alto, CA as homeless people living in all saints church opposite chase bank near the city hall .

  • @richardhoo8226
    @richardhoo8226 Рік тому +13

    Everything start with CIA. .

  • @odis_of_america
    @odis_of_america 6 місяців тому +1

    I enjoy watching your videos great job.

  • @jungleent1972
    @jungleent1972 Рік тому +20

    Microsoft gives it's source code to militaries that use their products. That includes Russia and China.

    • @aakashramdam7543
      @aakashramdam7543 Рік тому +7

      What about apple?
      All these shady company doing shady things under the sun

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 10 місяців тому +1

      I'm not saying you're wrong, but i have a really hard time believing that. Can you cite a source to back up this claim?

    • @jungleent1972
      @jungleent1972 10 місяців тому

      Gotta be in the know bro. @@Dwigt_Rortugal

    • @qdaniele97
      @qdaniele97 10 місяців тому +1

      If they gave their source code to everyone that wouldn't be a problem at all.

    • @Lilliathi
      @Lilliathi 10 місяців тому

      @@aakashramdam7543
      Apple is lifestyle brand.

  • @RealUniquee
    @RealUniquee 10 місяців тому +1

    China Just Nailed it, when it comes to do something serious. It country with most better copycat than original itself.

  • @RoboticDragon
    @RoboticDragon 11 місяців тому +4

    Fantastic video, very informative, thanks for sharing.

  • @faustburgundy656
    @faustburgundy656 5 місяців тому +1

    3:28 Dragon Scimitar for ever :,)

  • @istoppedlaughing5225
    @istoppedlaughing5225 10 місяців тому +3

    Other countries: USA please transfer some technology to us.
    China: I took it, catch me if you can.

  • @laddcraner4170
    @laddcraner4170 11 місяців тому +2

    Great content. More please....

  • @Lazerecho
    @Lazerecho Рік тому +15

    Cant spell China without CIA

    • @ILoveTinfoilHats
      @ILoveTinfoilHats 10 місяців тому +4

      Ok and you can't spell "homeowner" without "meow" what's your point

    • @vnzstz209
      @vnzstz209 2 місяці тому

      bro is speaking yappanese

  • @ok373737
    @ok373737 11 місяців тому +2

    Great video!

  • @mikelbrenn111
    @mikelbrenn111 Рік тому +11

    You can partly blame the countries being hack because they are ignorant in keeping their network secure and better employee training.

    • @null2470
      @null2470 Рік тому +2

      Yea we should blame the elderly for falling for social security scams, too. Ignorance is no excuse afterall, right?

    • @mikelbrenn111
      @mikelbrenn111 11 місяців тому +2

      @null2470 They know very well that other nations are very interested in getting information from the US and the West for their technology and economic advantages, and yet they didn't put enough effort and budget to create a more secure network and limit the information from getting out to vulnerable personnel. And you think China and other nation will stop because we call them bad? If China will have an edge in technology and military research then the US would do the same.

  • @curious_one1156
    @curious_one1156 7 місяців тому +2

    The US is after Linux distros now. Since people have stopped using for critical infra, as the US introduces vulnerabilities in windows.

    • @ElijahHuang-di7fn
      @ElijahHuang-di7fn 6 місяців тому

      Bill Gate is a SELLOUT Commie CCP Agent 🇨🇳

  • @ladeedaa
    @ladeedaa Рік тому +17

    That's how we became a super power also!
    USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸

  • @sabercruiser.7053
    @sabercruiser.7053 Рік тому +1

    Thank you much greatful 👍👍🙌🙌👏👏

  • @merounkidi8037
    @merounkidi8037 Рік тому +4

    all of Chinese military and officials have their original physical bodies in Titing a village in the sub division of Moutourwa in Cameroon

  • @CyborgHGWF
    @CyborgHGWF 4 місяці тому

    i had these problems on my old website. I didn’t even know what to do.

  • @tigerscott2966
    @tigerscott2966 11 місяців тому +8

    Remember the incident at Underwriters Laboratory?
    A Chinese engineer got caught walking out the gate with hard drives filled with sensitive information. 🥺

  • @darkwinter7395
    @darkwinter7395 9 місяців тому

    Critical infrastructure should NEVER be on the internet. It doesn't matter how inconvenient it is, or how many fat bonuses management has to give up, it just shouldn't be connected. Period.

  • @ThatGuyThatDiedToday
    @ThatGuyThatDiedToday 10 місяців тому +32

    This video is great! If at all possible, please include source material for this/future informational videos. Sounds like it'd be a great read. After doing some searching it's proving rather difficult to find the source material

    • @w462dh
      @w462dh 6 місяців тому

      it is, because it is baseless, just storytelling, have fun watching!

  • @whitemerlin5737
    @whitemerlin5737 Рік тому +35

    As a Chinese I want to say, none of us want to be superpower. You can give this title to India. They will be happy

    • @User1717ww
      @User1717ww Рік тому

      People have no idea how active the indian community is on youtube comments, specifically regarding politics - they fucking love this shit....a lot of the haters and people who talk bad about china online aren't actually american, theyre indian pretending to be american or chinese or whatevrer

    • @GTFO_0
      @GTFO_0 Рік тому +5

      Saar😂😂
      Lmao they feel Proud just with that😂😂

    • @099UHHful
      @099UHHful Рік тому +4

      Nobody wants the crown huh

    • @ghazanhussain2070
      @ghazanhussain2070 Рік тому +5

      They already claimed to be super power 😂😂😂😂

    • @099UHHful
      @099UHHful Рік тому +1

      @@ghazanhussain2070 this is why I prefer beanies over crowns

  • @justinhasan9155
    @justinhasan9155 10 місяців тому +1

    What if a conversation afterwards you allowed the intellectual property fraud!?

  • @lancesay
    @lancesay 11 місяців тому +12

    to me, its amazing when chinese hackers, most if not all barely could speak great english and yet their hacking skills are crazy. you have to know english really well, then the programming languages... that is like knowing three or more just computer languages, plus english and chinese. i cant even walk and chew gum, without biting my cheek and lips.

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 10 місяців тому +3

      Sadly, in a lot of cases the hacking skills don't have to be impressive because the targets are so soft and security is so lax.

    • @FeydHarkon666
      @FeydHarkon666 Місяць тому

      speaking English don't mean intelligence you literally got men with the intelligence of gorillas in English Speaking countries