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I am Brannen Karpf, the executive editor and vice president of N2K Networks

and your host for today's episode. A naval cryptological officer doing routine duties offshore in South China Sea, sort of looking at Malaysia,

and there's a vulnerability that has been exploited in a Japanese installed port crane in Malaysia.

Over the last few years we've seen a rapid increase in tensions and competition in the Indo-Pacific region,

specifically pitting the U.S. and China against one another and each other's allies and

partners in that region of the world.

We've seen increases in cyber activity launched by Volt Typhoon,

the advanced persistent threat coming from the Chinese military and government.

We've seen increased tensions caused by island-building campaigns in the South China Sea.

And we've seen trade relationships rise and fall throughout the entire region.

Our discussion today is with Kevin Lentz, a graduate student at UT Austin and the team leader of the Cyber Pacific Project at the Global Disinformation Lab.

They recently published a report on Cyber Competition in the Indo-Pacific Gray Zone 2035,

a threat-casting activity that they ran earlier this year,

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