Posted on 07/30/2023 10:31:42 AM PDT by EBH
US officials are searching for Chinese malware hidden in various defense systems that could disrupt military communications and resupply operations, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The administration believes malicious computer code has been hidden inside “networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases,” officials told the Times. The discovery has heightened concerns that hackers could “disrupt US military operations in the event of a conflict,” according to the Times. The two nations have been increasingly at odds over Taiwan as well as over China’s actions in the Indo-Pacific.
One congressional official told the newspaper that the malware was “a ticking time bomb” that could allow China to cut off power, water and communications to military bases, slowing deployments and resupply operations. Because military bases often share the same supply infrastructure as civilian homes and businesses, many other Americans could also be affected, officials told the Times.
The malware revelations echo a pattern of recent breaches by China-based hackers previously reported by CNN.
Last week, the email account of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns was hacked, three US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
Earlier this month, Microsoft and the White House confirmed that China-based hackers breached email accounts at two dozen organizations, including some federal agencies. The Biden administration believes the hacking operation – which Microsoft said was launched in mid-May – gave the Chinese government insights about US thinking heading into Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing in June.
Among the agencies targeted were the State Department and the Department of Commerce, which has sanctioned Chinese telecom firms. US officials and Microsoft analysts initially had trouble identifying how the hackers got into the email accounts, which made clear that they were dealing with a sophisticated hacking team,
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drip, drip, drip...
we are so in trouble.
follow up is this is an extensive intrusion
They are probably actually using this opportunity to install Chinese malware. Yes that is how corrupt things have become.
“Oh yay...this along with the Chinese biolab found in California...”
Lab operating in Reedley shut down after officials found infectious agents and chemicals
By: Brianna Willis KFSN logo, Thursday, July 27, 2023 2:36PM
REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) — A lab operating in Reedley is shut down after an investigation found it was filled with hazardous materials, chemicals, and medical waste.
The facility was discovered last year after a simple violation opened the door to something authorities say was much more disturbing - a facility operating unlicensed and unpermitted.
The legal action started in March of this year when the Fresno County Department of Public Health worked with the City of Reedley to get a court-issued warrant to inspect a property in Reedley.
Through the process, health officials say they found the company, Prestige Biotech and Universal Meditech, had refrigerators filled with chemicals, human blood, illegal Covid and pregnancy tests, and just under 1,000 mice.
As of earlier this month, all of those materials have been properly disposed of by health officials.
Officials say this is something they’ve never seen before.
It all started back in December 2022 with a green garden hose running through a property in the City of Reedley.
“Our code enforcement officer really paying attention, driving down the street, sees something that looks out of place. Stops, knocks on the door, and lo and behold, we discover folks that are storing things, operating here at 850 I street, unlicensed, unpermitted,” said Reedley City Manager, Nicole Zieba.
By March of this year, court documents show Fresno County in collaboration with the City of Reedley applied for a warrant to “inspect the property after inspectors found reasons to believe it did not meet health and safety standards.”
They later applied for a warrant to abate conditions on the property that were deemed a public nuisance.
Joe Prado with the Fresno County Department of Public Health says through those orders, they found Prestige Biotech and Universal Meditech Biotech Inc., had biological agents at the facility.
“There were some laboratory mice on-site at this location. What we heard from the business owner was that they were doing some type of testing with those mice to see whether or not their Covid test kits were actually effective in detecting Covid. So, that was one example of what they shared with the purpose of the laboratory mice were being on-site,” said Assistant Director with the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado.
In addition to the 951 mice that were either dead or in distress, a state medical waste investigation shows refrigerators and freezers with blood and containers labeled as “serum or plasma,” and found Prestige Biotech is not registered with the department as a medical waste generator.
Court documents also show CDC staff found at least 20 potentially infectious agents from chlamydia to hepatitis.
City staff say those in the lab told them “they are making pregnancy and COVID-19 tests.”
Zieba says they learned the company previously operated in Fresno.
“Our understanding is that this company was in Fresno, there was a fire that displaced them and for an unknown measure they just happened to Reedley that they stopped in for storage and interim operation,” said Zieba.
Through the abatement warrant approvals, officials have stopped the lab.
“On July 7 of this year, we were able to abate all the biological agents at that particular site,” said Prado. Both Zieba and Prado say this investigation is very unique.
“We run across unlicensed businesses all the time, a contractor who doesn’t have a license and things like that but to walk to a door and see 30 freezers, refrigerators, lab supplies, medical equipment, just shocking,” said Zieba.
“I have never experienced something like this in the last 26 years of my county career. So, this is, I think, a very unique situation,” said Prado.
Prado adds they all took quick action to make sure everyone in the City of Reedley is safe.
“I just want to really reassure the community. This was done really to protect the public overall. So we were successful with the biological agents being destroyed at this time, and so, but first and foremost the public safety was the main reason why we moved forward,” said Prado.
Action News tried to reach out to the owners of the company but our attempts to contact them were unsuccessful.
Zieba says due to the lack of communication from the company to the health inspectors’ inquiries, they consider the building abandoned and plan to destroy the property.
https://abc30.com/reedley-lab-hazardous-materials-medical-waste-prestige-biotech/13555300/
The more dangerous hidden ‘malware’ is not software or hardware, but ‘peopleware’. The dangers in our military start from the top, including Biden and the defense secretary and the people at tot joing-chiefs-of-staff. The malware implemented that the country should despise is called, CRT and LGTBQ+ policies.
Get rid of those dangers, and the country should feel a lot safer.
Now we know what that Chinese balloon was busy doing. The timing of this news is NOT a coincidence.
I think we have the future Regime narrative for chronic grid failure:
“It was Communist Chinese malware !”
So did they conclude from the lab mice that the covid kits were not reliable to detect covid? If not, everything else they are saying is BS!
“searching”
That’s code for ‘not serious’.
If they have any suspicion at all, protocol dictates full wipe and clean installs without backups.
PERIOD.
True. It opens doors. See #10.
Ask Joe where it is. I think he’s got the receipt from the Chi-coms for it, filed under “Kickbacks from Commies.”
Maybe it was put there by UFO’s? 👽
Check Cokes for peepee.
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