Koenig’s Eye View
Israel Briefings
Connecting the Dots
Israel Analysis: Taking out the West Bank trash
Stupidocrisy: Politics gone insane
The Nothingburger Address
Apostasy in the Church: Erasing history
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Israel
Turkey’s threat to block NATO cooperation with Israel
Extreme rhetoric in New York mosques as imams call for destruction of Israel, praise Hamas
IDF: 90% of Hezbollah launch sites struck on Sunday were near civilian areas, including schools & UN sites
Israel demands forceful condemnation of Hezbollah from UNSC for its ‘flagrant violation’ of Resolution 1701
Borrell asks EU members about sanctioning Israeli ministers
Hamas’ Rafah Brigade eliminated, 80% of tunnels in Philadelphia Route destroyed, IDF says
US, Israel criticize UNSC for omitting Hezbollah in renewed peacekeeping mandate
Analysis
Mark Zuckerberg’s election-season gift to Republicans
Insight
Russia warns the United States of the risks of World War Three
Chinese hackers ‘Dramatically Stepped Up’ attacks on internet service providers to spy on users, top cybersecurity official warns
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Koenig’s Eye View
Israel Briefings
Israel is apparently continuing the preparation for a stronger pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah. General Amir Avivi has excellent insight on what happened on Sunday and thoughts going forward. Below are additional briefings too and a variety of issues facing Israel.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon hammered the UN Security Council for their ongoing absurdity pertaining to Hezbollah. Hezbollah has accumulated 150,000 plus rockets and 15,000 plus missiles under the UN watch since 2006.
Israel’s new ambassador issues stark warning to UN over Hezbollah, Iran inaction
Danon to Hezbollah: ‘Withdraw from border now or you will lead Lebanon to ruin’
‘Flagrant violation’: Danny Danon demands UNSC condemn Hezbollah, enforce resolution 1701
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August 26:
Israel’s Preemptive Strike in Lebanon was not Enough – August 26 IDSF Daily Briefing
https://youtu.be/N4PWPBTd6a0?si=Y8fq2atPq1863gnT
Brigadier General Res. Amir Avivi talks about the Israeli air force strike on rocket launcher sites in Southern Lebanon that incapacitated the Hezbollah terror group’s capacity to launch 1000 rockets on northern Israel and Tel Avivi. Hezbollah was planning a massive attack at 5:00 AM Sunday morning, and the Israeli airforce sent 100 fighter jets at 4:45 AM Sunday morning to remove the threat. Although this was a tremendous show of force and by all accounts, a successful military operation for Israel, General Avivi discusses how it fell short of building real deterrence and safeguarding the 30,000 evacuated residents of Israel’s northern communities. This is an episode from the IDSF Daily Briefings. To sign up to view the LIVE briefings every day, click here — http://bit.ly/IDSFBriefings
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August 27:
In today’s briefing, Major Res. Yochanan Ben Jacob described the rescue of the hostage today and Gaza and more broadly spoke about threats from Iran and the firepower that Israel has to respond to all escalations in the region.
Please click here to view the recording of the briefing from today.
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August 28:
In today’s briefing, Lieutenant Colonel Res. Maurice Hirsch discusses the major IDF operation in Judea and Samaria that targeted significant terror cells in Jenin and Tulkarm. He examined the relationship between the war in Gaza and escalations in this region, and how terror activity in Judea and Samaria threatens the major population centers of Israel. He also spoke about the incident in the Sde Teiman military base with the accusations of abuse.
Please click here to view the recording of the briefing from today.
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August 29:
In today’s briefing, Lieutenant Colonel Res. Tal Nir discussed the operations in Northern Samaria ad the effectiveness of the security fence, and the need for additional IDF maneuvering in the area. He also discussed the conditions in the northern city of Tzfat since the start of the war and their preparedness for rocket fire from Lebanon.
Please click here to view the recording of the briefing from today.
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Best regards,
Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi
Founder and Chairman of IDSF Habithonistim
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Connecting the Dots
Israel Analysis
Taking out the West Bank trash
By Jim Fletcher
For the first time in generations, Israel is fighting a multi-front war. The IDF said from the start it would take a long time to finish-off Hamas in Gaza, but that is basically done. Of the 30,000 Hamas fighters at the beginning, only about 5,000 remain as any kind of fighting force. And even they are losing strength daily, not able anymore to be re-armed via the Philadelphia Corridor. In fact, reports are that Al-Sisi and Egypt have been allowing arms to continue flowing to Hamas. The giant tunnels in that area prove that at best, Egypt turned a blind eye to the death machine being built in the Gaza Strip.
And the Israeli pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah last weekend degraded that threat significantly. In an operation by the IAF that recalled the pre-emptive strike on Egypt to begin the Six Day War, Israeli jets attacked scores of missile-launching sites in Lebanon, only about 20 minutes before the launch dates, which would have rained-down missiles in central Israel, including and especially Tel Aviv.
In an interesting report this week, Benjamin Netanyahu is now in a much stronger position. After more than a year of withering pressure from the demons in Washington, He no longer has to pay attention to the fiend in the White House. The world anticipates Donald Trump’s return in a few months, which gives Netanyahu the opportunity to settle scores with all of Israel’s Middle East enemies. And make no mistake, Iran is very afraid.
But I am paying attention to the operation taking place in Judea-Samaria now, long honeycombed with Hamas rat’s nests. Jenin, Nablus, all have long been a thorn in Israel’s side.
By the way, the incidents happening in the West Bank now are confirmation that peace will not happen between the Palestinians and the Israelis, due solely to the fanatical hatred the former has for the latter.
On the evening of August 25, Palestinians carried out a vehicle ramming attack at the entrance to Ariel (a gleaming, beautiful Israeli town). Two terrorists driving from the direction of the Tapuah Junction sped against the direction of traffic, collided with Israeli vehicles and tried to run over IDF soldiers. IDF forces shot and killed them. A vest and ammunition magazines were discovered in the car. An IDF soldier was injured. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack and claimed the terrorists, Uday Nizar Nimr Abu Naasha and Mus’ab Hassan Ali Mekatzkets, were operatives of the Jenin Battalion of Jerusalem Brigades.
What could these psychos have accomplished with their lives if they weren’t driven by hate?
The day before those attacks, an IED detonated during IDF searches near the community of Avni Hefetz in northern Samaria. At the same time, an IED detonated close to a civilian bus near the community of Tekoa and the village of Marah Rabah. No casualties were reported; minor damage was done to the bus. IDF forces launched a search for suspects.
I took a bus in that location last year. And, it’s worth remembering that Tekoa is the town where Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran were murdered by terrorists in 2001. The boys had left their nearby homes to venture into the surrounding land. After they didn’t return home, their battered and bloody bodies were found in a cave. They had been stoned to death by Palestinian demons.
One more murder really illustrates how far gone the Arabs are.
On August 27, the military attorney’s office announced that the murder of a Prison Service officer, whose body was discovered in his home in the Giv’on HaHadasha community on July 8, 2024 with numerous stab wounds, was a terrorist attack. Ibrahim Mansour, accused of the murder, is a Hamas-affiliated resident of the village of Bidu. He is accused of entering Giv’on HaHadasha knowing that it was a Jewish-only community and stabbing the Israeli 66 times!
This is satanic rage. It has been with us since the beginning. In the meantime, before the Messiah returns to set things right, Israel is forced to defend the homeland. While the large-scale operations in Lebanon, Iran, and Gaza command our attention, it is the “low-grade” terrorism, decades long, that is most symbolic of the intractable nature of the conflict.
The Arabs are mentally unbalanced. Their hearts are dark.
But this is a rare opportunity for Israel to operate unimpeded in the region, uprooting significant terrorist operations, to go along with game-changing strikes against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
God go before the IDF. We stand as witnesses to your power and majesty, as you defend Your Chosen, and fulfill the Bible’s great end-times prophecies.
Amen.
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Stupidocrisy: Politics gone insane
By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst
WASH—Aug 28—KIN–The recent Democratic National Convention was a showcase for politics gone insane. To any and every American irrespective of party affiliation the spectacle in Chicago last week should raise alarm bells. The Democratic Party has driven a stake in the ground with the most communistic concept of “democratic” government in the history of the United States. Price controls on food, blaming grocery stores for inflated prices, after causing the inflation; transgender-mania; abortion on demand; hateful rhetoric; demonizing of any and all American citizens who do not agree with their agenda—all part and parcel to one of the most dangerous, freedom-threatening political tickets in history.
Remember that on Sunday, July 14, Joe Biden addressed the nation with a blatantly political speech saying that the political rhetoric needed to cool down and that there was no place in America for political violence. Yet the entire Democratic convention was based on hateful political rhetoric aimed at President Trump and his supporters. These people accuse their opposition of flaming hatred, but it is their own hateful words that stir the hearts and minds of those who would take violent action. The Democrat speakers repeated slur after slur, even lie after lie, that would ignite hate and violence.
The show didn’t stop there. The over-the-top support for the LGBTQ+ community only codified the insanity. How is it even allowed that an entire political party would endorse grooming children for sexual mutilation? Transgender this. Queer that. It is woven into the fabric of the Democratic Party. Abortion unlimited. The conventioneers proudly touted Planned Parenthood’s mobile bus encouraging free abortions and vasectomies to all comers. People are afraid to call this what it is—absolute insanity—because of the bullying and censorship they will face for being “hateful.” It’s not about hate. People who support this insanity need spiritual and mental help.
Outside the convention, terrorist supporters were protesting because the Democrats were not supporting them enough. Pro-Israel organizations couldn’t even get a parade permit in this Democrat-run city. Fences inside of fences were put up to protect the elite inside—largely from their own supporters who are violently angry about not getting enough support. Anybody in their right mind—and I mean this sincerely—needs incredible self-examination if they are sticking with the Democratic Party after that show of insanity. Ecclesiastes 9:3 says, “the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.” Sadly, there are many who will choose to follow this politics gone insane. Say it with me…Stupidocrisy.
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The Nothingburger Address
By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst
WASH—Aug 27—KIN–She began her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention with the familiar Kamala Cackles that has been her trademark. Her speech was marked by shrillness and arms flailing about not even synched by points of emphasis. How this person could ever be president is beyond imagination. No vision. No specific policies or ideas of how to correct the problems that the Biden Administration created—inflation, lack of border security, foreign policy issues and wars. It was an incredible lightweight speech with little to no substance. After days of Democrat after Democrat pounding the negatives of Donald Trump, Kamala Harris offered nothing to give Americans beyond what already is.
She said, “With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past. A chance to chart a New Way Forward….You can always trust me to put country above party and self. To hold sacred America’s fundamental principles. From the rule of law. To free and fair elections. To the peaceful transfer of power.” Yet her party and the Biden Administration has intentionally contributed to the bitterness, cynicism and division with harsh rhetoric against any who disagree with her crazy ideas. And once again, she brings up peaceful transfer of power without mentioning that voter security and election integrity are fundamental to free and fair elections.
She said, “Over the past two years, I have traveled across our country. And women have told me their stories. Husbands and fathers have shared theirs. Stories of: Women miscarrying in a parking lot…Getting sepsis…Losing the ability to ever have children again… All—because doctors are afraid of going to jail for caring for their patients. Couples just trying to grow their family…cut off in the middle of IVF treatments. Children who have survived sexual assault, potentially forced to carry the pregnancy to term. This is what is happening in our country. Because of Donald Trump.” First, you don’t grow your family by aborting your babies. And these unnamed, undocumented stories that she is claiming have nothing to do with the Supreme Court sending abortion law to the states, or Donald Trump. True healthcare these days is denied to no one.
Kamala asked the questions: “Why exactly is it that they don’t trust women?” Who doesn’t trust women? The party who supports men posing as women to be allowed in women’s sports, women’s bathrooms, grooming female children to cut off their breasts and mutilate their bodies to transition to being men. How does any of that promote the mental, physical health, safety, and general welfare of girls and women? Kamala Harris offers nothing more than what has been going on—no solutions, no vision, and no hope for what is good and right in this country. Isaiah 40:31 says, “but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Put your hope in the Lord, as there is no such hope in Harris.
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Apostasy in the Church
Erasing History
By Jim Fletcher
I’ve been thinking a lot about how satanic the Deep State is today. In 1963, they murdered an American president in broad daylight. In 2024 they tried it again, missing my millimeters (and a Divine Hand!). And yet even with today’s technologies, internet, and our own lying’ eyes (several saw the would-be assassin positioning himself long before he fired shots at Donald Trump), the coverups begin immediately and are effectively permanent. Without a Congress that demands answers, and a complicit Media, more than 100 million people will likely never hear the unvarnished truth on a mass scale.
That is astonishing, and sobering.
Only a satanic force would be skilled enough to cement gigantic lies. Mere mortals don’t have the ability to reach the heights many do today. Only personal evil can explain the world we are living in. That extends to the religious world, as well.
After October 7, even I was taken aback by the level of above-ground anti-Semitism in this country. To be specific, anti-Semitism in the American Church. Okay, to be as specific as possible: the Evangelical world.
There is a theological strategy right now to sanitize the Jewish nature of the Bible. To solid Bible believers, such a thing is unthinkable, and obviously so. The biblical characters, settings, and writers were Jewish. The New Jerusalem will have the names of Jews on the gates and foundation stones. Finally, this:
Jesus is a Jew.
Notice I said “is.”
But that truth is hated with a passion by a growing number of people within the Church.
I recently read a fascinating book that sheds light on the mindset that would do such a thing. Certainly, there are professing Christians today that have “Christianized” Christ. They have created an Anglo-centric faith that does not recognize Jews.
It is madness.
The depth and range of anti-Semitism in the Church is almost overwhelming.
But let’s look at a movement in the fairly recent past that led to all sorts of violence.
The book I read—The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany—examines the Christian effort to marginalize and lie about Jews and the Bible. It is a chilling account of how defaming an entire people can lead to mass murder and profound cultural delusion.
In 1939, the same year Hitler launched World War 2 by invading Poland, a group of theologians and pastors met at Wartburg Castle to form “the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life.” Organized by highly influential people, the Institute was malevolent from the start.
“The Institute’s goals were both political and theological. Seeking to create a dejudaized church for a Germany that was in the process of ridding Europe of all Jews, it developed new biblical interpretations and liturgical materials. In the six years of its existence, as the Nazi regime carried out its genocide of the Jews, the Institute redefined Christianity as a Germanic religion whose founder, Jesus, was no Jew but rather had fought valiantly to destroy Judaism, falling as victim to that struggle.”
Wow. This is inconceivable, unless you acknowledge that it requires choices on the part of individuals to accept a lie. One cannot read the Bible without seeing the clear Jewish nature of the sacred text. Zion. Judea. Synagogue. Hebrews. The text is very obviously about the physical descendants of Abraham, chosen especially by the Creator to be the ethnic vessel that would bring the Messiah and Scripture itself.
John 4:22, for example, “Salvation comes from the Jews,” was scrubbed from sermons in Germany! Church leaders removed “pro Jewish” verses from the New Testament (the OT was already removed from church teaching entirely) and teaching materials for study groups were rewritten. As insane as all this sounds, it worked. In only one generation, German churches were turned into the enemies of the Jews. It led to six million Jews being murdered. Staggering.
The exact same thing is happening in 2024 America. Reformed types have taken over formerly biblical denominations. The mainline churches of course have been anti-Semitic for generations. But it is this emphasis on the evangelical congregations that is most disturbing.
There is only one antidote to all this. Prayer, followed by resolving as individuals to fight this with every fiber of our being. A great war is raging. Sitting on our hands is not an option. Do everything you can to educate yourself on these issues and share with your circle of influence—we all have one.
Do not go gently into that good night.
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Israel
Turkey’s threat to block NATO cooperation with Israel
August 22, 2024
Source: FDD
On July 12, at the NATO summit in Washington, Turkey threatened to take steps to exclude Israel from all cooperation with NATO. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that “until comprehensive, sustainable peace is established in Palestine, attempts at cooperation with Israel within NATO will not be approved by Turkey.” This threat should be challenged by NATO members.
This is not the first time that Ankara has threatened NATO security and interoperability. Between 2022-2023, Ankara blocked NATO member consensus on expansion to Finland and Sweden. This decision was not due to bureaucratic or procedural impediments. It was simply a matter of Erdoğan leveraging Turkey’s membership in NATO to compel the United States to authorize the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. Without finding a way to make this happen, Erdoğan held NATO hostage, in order to get what he wanted. It worked. In return for finally approving Sweden’s application, the US authorized the sale of F-16’s in January 2024.
For the full article: FDD
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Extreme rhetoric in New York mosques as imams call for destruction of Israel, praise Hamas
August 26, 2024
Source: New York Post
A Brooklyn Muslim cleric who once partnered with New York Mayor Eric Adams on a campaign to end hate is now spreading it by calling for the annihilation of Israel, The Post has learned.
Meanwhile, one of his counterparts at a mosque in the Bronx has taken to blasting “Zionist Hollywood” and Christians for packing their churches with LGBTQ worshippers, whom he claims they are recruiting to bolster dwindling congregations.
As the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza continues, imam Sheikh Muhammad Al-Barr, called on Allah at his Bay Ridge mosque to “liberate Palestine from the occupiers and the plunderers” during a Friday service earlier this month.
For the full article: New York Post
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IDF: 90% of Hezbollah launch sites struck on Sunday were near civilian areas, including schools & UN sites
August 27, 2024
Source: All Israel News
Hezbollah rocket launchers were located only 150 meters from schools
Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday that approximately 90% of Hezbollah’s rocket launch sites that it attacked on Sunday, in a preemptive strike against a planned large-scale assault on Israel, were situated near civilian areas in southern Lebanon.
“Early Sunday morning, following the detection of preparations by Hezbollah to launch missiles and rockets aimed toward the north and the center of the State of Israel, the IDF struck Hezbollah targets that posed an immediate threat,” IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen.-Daniel Hagari wrote on .
For the full article: All Israel News
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Israel demands forceful condemnation of Hezbollah from UNSC for its ‘flagrant violation’ of Resolution 1701
August 26, 2024
Source: All Israel News
Israel’s UN Amb Danny Danon told UNSC there is an ‘urgent need’ to demilitarize southern Lebanon and disarm Hezbollah
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon demanded a “forceful condemnation of Hezbollah’s aggression” and the enforcement of UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1701 on Sunday.
His urgent appeal to the UNSC came after Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah to thwart an imminent attack early on Sunday morning.
For the full article: All Israel News
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Borrell asks EU members about sanctioning Israeli ministers
August 29, 2024
Source: JNS
The E.U. foreign policy chief reportedly did not name the ministers he was referring to.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in Brussels on Thursday that he asked the bloc’s member states if they would consider imposing sanctions on Israeli ministers, Reuters reported.
“I initiated the procedure to ask the member states if they consider [it] appropriate to include in our list of sanctions some Israeli ministers [who] have been launching unacceptable hate messages against the Palestinians, and proposing things that clearly go against international law,” he told reporters before a meeting of E.U. foreign ministers in the de facto capital of the international organization.
For the full article: JNS
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Hamas’ Rafah Brigade eliminated, 80% of tunnels in Philadelphia Route destroyed, IDF says
August 29, 2024
Source: Ynet News
IDF says terrorists are attempting to flee northward from Rafah toward the Mawasi area; also reveals that rescued hostage Farhan Kadi was held by terrorists in the tunnel for 12 to 24 hours before his rescue
The IDF announced on Thursday that Hamas’ Rafah Brigade had been decimated, with 80% of the tunnels along the Philadelphi Route destroyed.
For the full article: Ynet News
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US, Israel criticize UNSC for omitting Hezbollah in renewed peacekeeping mandate
August 29, 2024
Source: All Israel News
Since the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolved to renew its peacekeeping mandate in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, US and Israeli officials have criticized the resolution for failing to condemn Hezbollah by name.
The resolution renewed the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which is tasked, in part, with upholding UN Resolution 1701. This resolution is intended to prevent any armed forces, other than those of the Lebanese state, from operating in southern Lebanon.
For the full article: All Israel News
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Analysis
Mark Zuckerberg’s election-season gift to Republicans
August 27, 2024
Source: CNN
Mark Zuckerberg is handing Republicans political victories ahead of the 2024 presidential election, acquiescing to years of GOP grievances over his company’s policies.
In recent days, the Meta chief executive has made newsworthy public statements implicitly supporting right-wing “censorship” narratives and offered praise for Donald Trump as “badass” – even as he claimed he wanted to appear “neutral” and nonpartisan.
On Monday, Zuckerberg sent a letter to the powerful House Judiciary Committee, stating that the Biden administration had “pressured” Meta to “censor” content during the pandemic.
For the full article: CNN
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Insight
Russia warns the United States of the risks of World War Three
August 27, 2024
Source: Yahoo News
MOSCOW – Russia said the West was playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles and cautioned the United States on Tuesday that World War Three would not be confined to Europe.
Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region on Aug. 6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two. President Vladimir Putin said there would be a worthy response from Russia to the attack.
Sergei Lavrov, who has served as Putin’s foreign minister for more than 20 years, said that the West was seeking to escalate the Ukraine war and was “asking for trouble” by considering Ukrainian requests to loosen curbs on using foreign-supplied weapons.
For the full article: Yahoo News
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Chinese hackers ‘Dramatically Stepped Up’ attacks on internet service providers to spy on users, top cybersecurity official warns
August 27, 2024
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Chinese hackers have infiltrated major U.S. internet service providers and “dramatically stepped up” their attacks to spy on millions of American customers, a top cybersecurity official told the Washington Post.
“It is business as usual now for China, but that is dramatically stepped up from where it used to be. It is an order of magnitude worse,” said Brandon Wales, former executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The Chinese hackers exploited a software bug in a U.S. Secure Access Service Edge vendor, Lumen Technologies, an American telecommunications and security firm, identified in a blog post on Tuesday. The tech company wrote that the attack took advantage of an unidentified flaw in Versa Director—a software platform used to manage IT services for customers of California-based Versa Networks. CISA told the Post it agreed that Chinese hackers did exploit the flaw as Lumen reported.
For the full article: The Washington Free Beacon
