Ep. 58 - Double Dragon: How China's APT 41 Works for the State by Day - and Itself by Night

China's cyber shadow has already reached your software. APT 41 — known as Double Dragon — isn't just stealing state secrets. They've pioneered a new generation of supply chain attacks, trojanizing the shared code libraries that thousands of organizations trust without question. And their latest splinter unit, UAT 7290, has been inside North American developer environments for over a year — not triggering anything, just watching, learning, and waiting to strike in a way that looks completely native.

In this episode, Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley expose the group that breaks every rule of traditional espionage: how the MSS built an elite hacker force by letting them run their own criminal enterprise on the side, how APT 41 turned the video gaming industry into a personal ATM worth millions, and why China's 2026 cybersecurity law has given these groups a 48-hour head start on every new exploit.