Bluepurple Pulse: week ending September 24th

The amount of commercial mobile capability both on show and burnt this week is material..

Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading). Not everything makes it in, but the best bits do.

Operationally this week you will see there was a lot of nation state focused reporting, outside of that the amount of commercial mobile capability both on show and burnt is material…

In the high-level this week:

• NSA plans new ‘innovation pipeline’ to focus on China - David Frederick, the NSA’s assistant deputy director for China, said the new program will be called “Red Ventures.” .. The National Security Agency’s China directorate will soon launch an “innovation pipeline” focused on the competition with China and solving the NSA’s most pressing challenges.

• DOD Releases 2023 Cyber Strategy Summary - "This strategy draws on lessons learned from years of conducting cyber operations and our close observation of how cyber has been used in the Russia-Ukraine war,"

  • Pentagon says cyberattacks are part of China’s armory for conflict with US

  • Pentagon v…