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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray has issued a stark warning about the scale of China’s cyber threat to the United States, calling it a national security threat.
What Happened: During the annual security conference in Munich, Wray cautioned that China’s covert placement of offensive malware in U.S. critical infrastructure networks is now at "a scale greater than we'd seen before," reported The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. He highlighted the Volt Typhoon, a Chinese hacking network, which has been dormant within the U.S. critical infrastructure.
Wray stated that the pre-positioned malware could be activated at any time to disrupt the U.S. critical infrastructure. He described this as “the tip of the iceberg” and one of many similar efforts by China.
He refrained from specifying which other critical infrastructure had been targeted, emphasizing that the FBI is actively investigating the matter.
Wray’s warning is the latest in a series of public alerts by senior officials in the Biden administration about China’s advanced and well-resourced hacking capabilities. Western intelligence officials have noted a significant increase in the scale and sophistication of China’s cyberattacks over the past decade.
Wray has been urging foreign governments to ramp up their efforts to counter Chinese hacking campaigns, particularly in safeguarding critical infrastructure. He has expressed satisfaction with the response, noting a significant shift from the skepticism that existed several years ago.
"I am seeing more from Europe," Wray said. "We're laser focused on this as a real threat and we're working with a lot of partners to try to identify it, anticipate it and disrupt it."
Wray noted that artificial intelligence tools are now amplifying those attacks. "They already have built economic espionage and theft of personal and corporate data as a kind of a bedrock of their economic strategy and are eagerly pursuing AI advancements to try to accelerate that process," he said.
Why It Matters: This warning from Wray comes on the heels of a series of events that have underscored the escalating cyber threats from China. In January, Wray told Congress that hackers with ties to the Chinese government were targeting crucial U.S. infrastructure, including civilian sectors. He described these attacks as “low blows against civilians” and a part of China’s larger plan.
arlier that month, the U.S. had initiated a crackdown on a widespread Chinese cyber espionage effort known as the Volt Typhoon, which had breached numerous internet-connected devices globally. This initiative, led by the Justice Department and the FBI, saw legal measures being put in place to dismantle key components of this cyber intrusion.
Amid these developments, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has once again called for a "Geneva convention around cyber."
Furthermore, the sophistication of Chinese hackers has been on the rise, as evidenced by the recent hack of Microsoft email accounts of U.S. government officials. This has raised concerns among U.S. cybersecurity officials about potential extensive infiltration into U.S. government and corporate networks.
Scientists have expressed concerns about the spread of a sickness called “zombie deer disease,” NY Post reported. They’re afraid it might evolve and start infecting people.
Last year, researchers found the first case of this infection in Yellowstone National Park. A deer carcass was found in the Wyoming area of the park tested positive for the highly contagious disease. It has been officially called chronic wasting disease, or CWD.
Rapid spread and lethal effects of zombie deer disease raise concerns globally
This disease is showing up in deer, elk, and moose in 33 different states in the U.S. It has also been reported in parts of Canada, Norway, and South Korea.
CWD “damages portions of the brain and typically causes progressive loss of body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation and death,” according to the New York State Department of Health. The infection is said to be 100 percent fatal with no treatments or vaccines.
“The bottom-line message is we are quite unprepared,” Michael Osterholm, an expert in infectious disease at the University of Minnesota told KFF Health News in early Feb. “If we saw a spillover right now, we would be in free fall. There are no contingency plans for what to do or how to follow up.”
Scientists believe the main way people might get the zombie deer disease is by eating meat from infected deer. Even though thousands of deer and elk with the sickness are eaten each year, there haven’t been confirmed cases of people getting sick from it. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t change in the future, the experts predict.
CWD happens because of misfolded proteins called prions. There’s another disease caused by prions that started in animals but can now infect humans.
Insights from research on mad cow disease and CWD transmission
Dr. Sabine Gilch, Ph.D., a researcher at Canada’s University of Calgary, recently explained how Mad Cow Disease, known officially as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), “jumped the transmission barrier from animals to humans.”
“During the BSE crisis, BSE was transmitted through contaminated meat or food products to humans and caused a new form of human prion disease, called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,” she explained.
Although Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease doesn’t pass from one person to another through touching or breathing in infected air, scientists think that “zombie deer disease” might.
To check if this is possible, Gilch and her group injected CWD samples from infected deer into mice that had been modified to have features similar to humans.
Afterward, these mice ended up getting “zombie deer disease” and were discovered to release infectious prions in their feces. “The implication is that CWD in humans might be contagious and transmit from person to person,” Gilch warned.
Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure—the largest ever seen in our galaxy—made up of interconnected stellar nurseries. Dubbed the “Radcliffe wave” in honor of the collaboration’s home base, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the discovery transforms a 150-year-old vision of nearby stellar nurseries as an expanding ring into one featuring an undulating, star-forming filament that reaches trillions of miles above and below the galactic disk.
The work, published in Nature on 7 January, was enabled by a new analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft, launched in 2013 with the mission of precisely measuring the position, distance, and motion of the stars. The research team combined the super-accurate data from Gaia with other measurements to construct a detailed, 3-D map of interstellar matter in the Milky Way, and noticed an unexpected pattern in the spiral arm closest to the Earth.
The researchers discovered a long, thin structure, about 9,000 light years long and 400 light years wide, with a wave-like shape, cresting 500 light years above and below the mid-plane of our Galaxy’s disk. The Wave includes many of the stellar nurseries that were previously thought to form part of “Gould’s Belt”, a band of star-forming regions believed to be oriented around the Sun in a ring.
“No astronomer expected that we live next to a giant, wave-like collection of gas—or that it forms the Local Arm of the Milky Way,” said Alyssa Goodman, the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, and co-director of the Science Program at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. “We were completely shocked when we first realized how long and straight the Radcliffe Wave is, looking down on it from above in 3-D—but how sinusoidal it is when viewed from Earth. The Wave’s very existence is forcing us to rethink our understanding of the Milky Way’s 3-D structure.”
“Gould and Herschel both observed bright stars forming in an arc projected on the sky, so for a long time, people have been trying to figure out if these molecular clouds actually form a ring in 3-D,” said João Alves, professor of stellar astrophysics at the University of Vienna and Radcliffe Fellow (2018-2019). “Instead, what we’ve observed is the largest coherent gas structure we know of in the galaxy, organized not in a ring but in a massive, undulating filament. The Sun lies only 500 light years from the Wave at its closest point. It’s been right in front of our eyes all the time, but we couldn’t see it until now.”
The new, 3-D map shows our galactic neighborhood in a new light, giving researchers a revised view of the Milky Way and opening the door to other major discoveries.
FBI agents storm President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 looking for incriminating documents – reportedly about the FBI and Crossfire Hurricane scandal.
The now infamous binder contains hundreds of pages about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal. It contains damaging information about the corrupt actors involved in our government. Two different DOJ Attorney General’s have defied President Trump’s direct lawful order to publish the binder in the Federal Register. It’s been over three years now, and the DOJ continues to defy the presidential order and every FOIA request to make it public. Can we now raid the homes of former acting AG Monty Wilkinson, and current AG Merrick Garland?
You can still find the link to this memorandum of declassification here.
The DOJ had already made redactions to protect sources and methods, and returned the binder back to the White House before Trump left office. But the corrupt FBI also wanted to hide names of those involved in the scandal. So, at the last minute, the DOJ demanded the binder comply with the 1974 Privacy Act. The Act requires any “agency” that releases records to also hide personal or identifiable name information. The DOJ knew this Act didn’t apply to the White House, it was a stall tactic. The courts decided this 22 years ago that the Privacy Act was based on FOIA requests, and the White House is not an agency.
The page below came from the memorandum on declassification of the materials like to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane scandal.
Hours before Trump left office on January 20th, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows gave the binder back to the DOJ, along with this memo. He asked the DOJ to make any Privacy Act redactions “out of an abundance of caution”. In the memo he asks they expeditiously release the binder when finished. Meadows foolishly expected this would take 3-4 days. It’s been over three years and still the contents of the binder have not released. Just the News previously obtained the Meadows memo from the National Archives, which also denied having a copy of the declassified binder.
Meadows admitted in interviews various agency’s often stalled or defied Trump’s orders. Meadows knew better than to rely on the DOJ to release this damaging binder after they left the White House. He should have released the binder to the public himself. But in doing so, there was a chance he would become a target of the DOJ and FBI. Unfortunately, the Biden regime has gone after him anyway and he was charged by Fani Willis in her RICO lawfare case against President Trump and his advisers and supporters.
The Nevada Secretary of State’s office (run by Democrat Francisco Aguilar) on Sunday learned of the ‘glitch’ after numerous Nevada voters realized their votes were counted in the recent primary even though they didn’t participate.
The SoS office “determined that the problem resulted in some counties not taking the proper steps to upload their voter registration. Every night each county uploads their voter registration to the secretary of state’s database, which executes code to create the statewide voter registration file that Nevadans see when they log into vote.nv.gov, according to the secretary of state’s office.” – The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
“The systems used by some counties require additional steps to be taken to ensure that voters who did not return their ballot do not have vote history, the secretary of state’s office said. Some of those steps were not taken, which resulted in inaccurate data on the website.” – The Review-Journal said.
The Nevada Secretary of State’s office insisted the glitch will be fixed and all data will be accurate within 48 hours.
“Again, this is an error that relates to the code used for when a voter is sent a mail ballot and does not return it; it has no connection in any way to vote tabulation,” the Secretary of State’s office said in a statement. The top-down Voter Registration and Election Management System (VREMS) project at the Secretary of State’s office will go live prior to the June 2024 election, and remove the need for these outdated processes.”
A technical issue was causing primary mail-in ballots across Nevada to show as counted when voters had not mailed their ballots or voted at all, the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Monday to 8 News Now.
The voter history glitch had nothing to do with vote tabulation, which happens at the county level.
County clerks had mailed ballots for the primaries to those registered as Democrat or Republican and who requested them or had not opted out. Over the weekend, several people emailed 8 News Now, saying though they never voted by mail or voted in the primary at all, the state’s online system showed their ballot was counted.
Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo said the Secretary of State’s office is “working diligently” to resolve the issue.
The former first lady of Haiti has been indicted in the assassination of her husband, President Jovenel Moise.
Judge Walther Voltaire has indicted former First Lady Martine Moise for being “complicit” in her husband’s 2021 assassination.
The judge made his decision after receiving evidence from two defendants who claimed Martine Moise had knowledge of her husband’s assassination plot but did not warn her husband due to her desire to become president herself.
Judge Voltaire also indicted dozens of others, including former Prime Minister Claude Joseph and the ex-chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles.
A judge in Haiti responsible for investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, among others, according to a report obtained Monday.
The indictments are expected to further destabilize Haiti as it struggles with a surge in gang violence and recovers from a spate of violent protests demanding the resignation of current Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
Dozens of suspects were indicted in the 122-page report issued by Walther Wesser Voltaire, who is the fifth judge to lead the investigation after previous ones stepped down for various reasons, including fear of being killed.
Charles, who was police chief when Moïse was killed and now serves as Haiti’s permanent representative to the Organization of the American States, faces the most serious charges: murder; attempted murder; possession and illegal carrying of weapons; conspiracy against the internal security of the state; and criminal association.
