Kevin Mandia – The Man Who Exposed China’s Military Hackers | SRS #328
Kevin Mandia is CEO of Armadin, where he leads the company’s mission to secure some of the world’s largest and most complex environments. A globally recognized cybersecurity leader, he is also a General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, mentoring and investing in the next generation of cybersecurity entrepreneurs. Best known as the founder of Mandiant and former CEO of FireEye, Mandia helped redefine the cybersecurity industry through pioneering digital forensics, the groundbreaking APT1 report exposing state-sponsored cyber espionage, and his leadership during the SolarWinds attack. Today, he continues to shape cybersecurity strategy, national security policy, and the future of AI-driven defense.
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0:00 Cybersecurity Gets Real
21:41 iPhone Security, Privacy & China
35:21 Hunting China’s First Cyber Intrusions
47:42 Attribution, Espionage & APT1
59:53 China Targets Defense Contractors
1:11:36 Insider Threats, Taiwan & Cognitive Warfare
1:30:43 SolarWinds & the Biggest Cyber Breaches
1:50:21 Supply Chain Attacks & Ransomware
2:05:33 Quantum Security & Critical Infrastructure
2:20:12 AI, Cyber Deterrence & U.S. Capabilities
2:36:06 Social Media, Psychological Warfare & Privacy
2:49:14 America’s Top Cyber Threats
3:01:37 The Future of AI & Cybersecurity
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Insurgency to total information in just 30 years
Russian Iran and Pakistan north Korean insurgency cyber and ground cell’s
All enabled by Hereford
It’s specialist activities
Mercenary
Trust me bro-Friend of show
get Bryan Silva on an episode!
Trust the NSA?
America is the most scammed country in the world.
The insurgency into Hereford and British intelligence left the reasons who and why
As revenge for irac Afghanistan, Burntwood refuge
Iran Ireland Russia and banking laundering Helsinki fromes Hill Hereford
My dead father and the king Hereford
The terrorist cell on the hill, for themselves with the full support as always of Hereford police authorities and intelligence
They have a very special relationship you see
Managed and directed to perfection for the interests of Iran Russia and Ireland Pakistan and north Korea.
It was the same technology
The same reasoning and anniversary’s for revenge attacks
In the end enabled and staged with a very special mastery
Hereford in totality for anyone with a modicum of real intellect to see for themselves
Anyone with a app attachment to satalight
Directed and managed Into a live event
By their own dam intelligence
Staged to perfection
They only thing they could do
Clean up and deny any intelligence at all
Top shine and hide the real causes
Guaranteed to make it easier to repeat
Oh I forgot they did repeat the same thing easily over over and over again
You do not want a US based VPN
I love how companies came to help with no ego!
He’s protecting pedophiles by working for inQtel and the cia. Finders cult.
Damn I can’t believe they past Section 702. But this is also why they are pushing for all the data centers and the flock cameras.
I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 70’s/80’s too- my entire town(and neighboring towns) almost collapsed because of the steel industry. But, the people are the BEST! More than a few guys from my high school, went to West Point -smart, moral, hard working culture!
Get pastor Steven A Anderson on,
Shawn gods purpose for you is amazing and you are using it. I have cancer and 26 years old , life honestly sucks but fuck it. Tomorrow today is just another day. Look forward to every episode, thank you.
He didn’t mention India in the first 10 minutes. He cannot be trusted
don’t trust him
This guy knows good offensive stuff that you could pick up with hackthebox CPTS program in a few months. I wouldnt trust him at all though when he said CIA arm no problem funding me
Please interview Jaime Winship of Identity Exchange. Please.
This guy is S’in the governments D so hard! Wow lol maybe he should run for president
You had me at Kevin…
Where has this dude been the last 15 years? The whole country figured it out except him? If he is the best of the best, no wonder chinese spies spend 80 hours a week digging through government servers. The government never does anything unchecked? He sounds like the perfect bureaucrat. I imagined the govt had the best hackers on Earth fighting off the Russians and chinese but I guess these true believers just sit there and watch them steal all our secrets.
It’s funny how he said that everyone should no home to live off the grid but many cities and towns try to prevent people from living off the grid because they want them hooking up to municipal utilities.
Why did he say the two O.S.s are Windows & UNIX? It’s Linux. The entire internet is built on L.A.M.P.
RHEL, SUSE, HPE & Kylin. That’s telling. Perhaps he used UNIX at some specific environment in the 80s/90s at the university? Or his company is using a highly specialized distro? Shawn, get a cyber security on your show, that would be better.
All I know is that some day the Antichrist will control absolutely everything everywhere
Hard card copies of files, noted mattress banking back no risk in that retrospect
🥱 😴💤💤💤💤
Well this will get me through the first half of work yay
Is that why people go to WTI sometimes to protect against the Air Force or whatever has access to it because of 911 that would be like the world trade Institute or whatever
I was already sus about this salesman, now he’s shilling for Apple? Aight, I’m out.
🤢🤮
After the Candace episode I just don’t trust Sean anymore
Another, “nothong to see here” type of guy. Sorry but I don’t buy it. .
🤣 bro can hack my ass, he would find a whole lot of shit… Exactly what he’s full of.
Hacking is weird, it’s like China is shooting bullets at us but we can’t fire back. We know and see it’s them, but it’s illegal for us to shoot back.
i disagree with the choice of iOS as the more secure platform. but my experience is different from within the alphabets. i still think Android is better, but it does require reconfiguration from factory.
Dude sounds like he is completely full of shit.
Stay analog
I know that feeling, $139k Biweekly and people around me accused me of drug trafficking, saying big money don’t come clean.
Deliberately hacking people to ruin them. When the damage is done and you’re busted, blame it on a phantom hacker actor. Typical America, create the problem for leverage. When it blows up in their face, claim a “hidden hacker” did it. As always, anything to skirt accountability. And it’ll never stop…just new/same characters ACTING surprised.
This guy has clearly spent way too much time with high level government officials and CEOs! He now 100% speaks their narrative, spews their garbage. “I believe in the institutions, they all have good and righteous intentions” ? Right? 100% BS snake oil salesman!
In a nutshell, WW III is coming and the big question is ‘How do we keep it short?”.
sounds like a apple commercial 😂😂 ill stick to android
Really interesting stuff
You blew your cover less than 15 minutes into this interview, now we all know you are still CIA…
Great podcast
20:55 comment about nobody wants an android caught me off guard. I dont know many adults that use iPhone. Usually just teens
you think people who can stop hacker will wear a suit?
Can’t hack paper in a file cabinet. My empire will run on ink while old world will still be plugged into a wall, chained. No corporations, just a war chest the size of Montana. Nukes will be disabled because my A.I. will take complete control of all microchips around the solar system.
Just like Trump being blackmailed by Russia!
I just wanna say that the Google Pixel is the only device the US Government permits for official use because of its robust security. A lot of people sleep on the Google Pixel. I switched from an iPhone and I’m never going back. Very interesting episode. Thanks Shawn! God Bless!