China-based Daixin Team hackers raid AirAsia
Hi kids, welcome to the highly respected, intensely copied Saturday edition of Fishwrap.
We're coming out of East Nong Bon in Thailand, where it is early on Saturday, 25 Canadian degrees with a light breeze and a Wind Chill Factor of 21 degrees - aka 70 U.S.A. degrees.
And it's going to rain again in the afternoon and early evening.
Well, farmers are not complaining.
Are you talking to me? Are you? Talking to me?
Well then pull your damned mask up. Haven't you heard about all this Covid-19 virus that's going around? I don't want your cooties all over me.
The token 'ministry' of Public Health advises renewed masking.
It's simple: The number of new Covid infections is rising again. No Exceptions.
Short and Sweet
The newest mandate requires maks for everyone in all public spaces, and in all vehicles (privateones included) with two people or more.
Police can fine scofflaws 400 baht - on the spot.
Yes, "everyone" includes tourists and short-term visitors - No exceptions.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2446227/
Junta plans to keep Prayut away from voters
Thailand's alleged 'prime ministe3r' and loyalists announced a two-step programme designed to
• keep Prayut as head of the Thai administration
• avoid national elections for parliament, which may take place in May, or so.
The plan calls for Prayut to abandon most of the military friends who put him in power in May, 2014.
He will announce he is joining the new Ruam Thai Sang Chart [United Thai Nation] as 'Chief Adviser' and UTN's sole nominee to be named [again] as prime minister.
This could keep Prayut off all election lists. He never has run for office and no one ever has voted for him.
On Thursday, Prayut called in 'deputy prime minister' and retired army general Prawit Wongsuwan [left in the photo] for a meeting at the Bangkok headquarters of the 1st Infantry Regiment - and told his former BFF about his plan.
prayut-prawit25.jpg
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2445715/
Prawit, the coupmeister of 2014, is the head of Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) - formed in 2018 specifically and solely to support the 2014 coup, the ruling junta, and Prayut.
The PPRP is bleeding establishment member - and Prayut is the main figure designated to encourage defections.
So the old rule is back in effect: Don't Try To Understand Thai Politics.
Where the human traffickers go
Border patrol teams have uncovered new routes used by human traffickers - including a new, upgraded path from Thailand's Satun province to Malaysia.
The area is where traffickers killed hundreds or perhaps thousands of illegal aliens in 2015 - most of them Rohingya from Burma and Bangladesh.
The newly discovered trafficking route runs between Wang Prachan market in Thailand's Satun province and Perlis town in Malaysia.
Since then, Thailand's ruling junta has got away with made-up reports about how trafficking and refugee shakedowns had completely stopped. The United States, among others, swallowed the falsities and prevaractions of Thailand's alleged 'government', and insists on calling the country "democratic".
https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40022445
Related
A broken-down boat packed with 51 Rohingya foundered off the coast of Satun province on Tuesday.
The Rohingya, from Rakhine state in western Myanmar, said they were trying to reach Indonesia - to claim amnesty and get jobs.
All of the Rohingya, including a dozen children, were brought ashore.
Police ordered an investigation to find if human trafficking was involved.
[SPOILER ALERT]It was.
Daixin Team hackers raid AirAsia
The China-based group demanded a ransom and started publishing details of 5 million files of all AirAsia staff and most of its customers.
AirAsia and three-letter U.S. agencies said they will never pay ransom - FBI, CIA, HRH, etc, etc.
The U.S. has warned about possible attacks for months. Ironically, the Daixin Gang uses 'backdoor malware' attack software stolen from the compromised N.S.A.
Details on how the 'Daixin attack' works.
https://bityl.co/FrMr
https://says.com/my/tech/airasia-data-breach-daixin-team
Addition links for nerds and geeks
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-294a
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-govt-warns-of-daixin-team-targeting-health-orgs-with-ransomware/
https://www.databreaches.net/airasia-victim-of-ransomware-attack-passenger-and-employee-data-acquired/
https://industrialcyber.co/threats-attacks/china-linked-daxin-espionage-tool-attack-governments-other-critical-infrastructure-installations/
THAILAND SOUTH SEPARATIST
Thailand's military regime has extended the Thaksin-era 'State of Emergency' in the country's deep South - for the umpteenth time
The draconian edict allows extended arrests and indefinite detention. It has done approximately nothing to stop murderous attacks by separatist rebels, but has won major opposition from residents of three Muslim-majority provinces.
south-emergency.jpg
Details of the 2005 edict: https://bityl.co/FrP1
CORONAVIRUS CHINA
China's unbelievably daft 'zero-Covid plan fails completely
"No way we can open," said chief adviser to President4Life Xi Jinping.
Which is a certified bummer for China - and utterly horrible news to Thailand which needs tourists from China.
And get this from the 'Expert'
Experts believe that the main Chinese-made vaccines provide high levels of protection from severe illness and death with three doses. But they are less effective and fade faster than BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.
https://www.ft.com/content/929b69b4-7826-429d-9e1f-f178845fac8b
THAILAND TRAINS TRANSPORTATION STATION ROUNDHOUSE
Switching train termini
Most of Thailand’s long-distance, rapid and express trains will move out of venerable Hua Lamphong station within two months. Their new terminus will be [try to memorize this for the taxi dsrivers] Krung Thep Aphiwat Terminal Station - aka and better known as Bang Sue Grand Station.
https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40022440
SPORTS SOCCER WORLD CUP
Save the Wales
A late substitution, a stupid American penalty and Gareth Bales' penalty-goal conversion saved the lads from Cardiff and barely earned a tie. They're on the verge of being eliminated from the Qatar tournament. But so are the Americans. They next face England - Do Or Die.
https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2022/11/fifa-world-cup-2022-usmnt-1-wales-1-match-report-stats-standings
Iran team star arrested
Top Iran soccer player Voria Gharouri was hauled off by police on Friday because he backed ongoing protests by Iranian women. Shiite mullahs call it "spreading propaganda against the state".
https://www.dw.com/en/iran-arrests-footballer-ghafouri-after-he-backed-protests/a-63878210
THAILAND ECONOMY
Kasikornbank aka KBank, née Thai Farmers Bank, had this advice on Friday:
If you have U.S. currency, change it to baht right now.
If you have lots of That baht, hold on to it.
The baht will strengthen within in the next few months "because of internal factors after the U.S. Federal Reserve central bank eases its policy rate hikes.”
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2445775/
Auto production up to speed
One of the least-noticed, most important economic achievements of the past three Rona years:
Auto production on fleek
Unaffected by floods, worker flights to Myanmar and Cambodia and mass illnesses from the coronavirus, production problems will not cause Thailand's car manufacturing to fall short of its 2022 target.
The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) says production is up this year over last - and churned out 64,618 cars, pickups and so on during October.
PHOTO: These vehicles will all be exported from Laem Chabang port, where are currently parked.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/auto/news/2445790/
Directly Related
The Automotive Industry Club joined with nine car manufacturers to offer maintenance services, with discounts on engine oil and spare parts, to encourage motorists to have their cars checked in a new push to reduce PM2.5 (smog, pollution ultra-fine dust emitted from ageing cars.
"We hope this will lead to cleaner air," said club chairladyperson Yuphin Boonsirichan of Mercedes Benz (photo below)
https://www.bangkokpost.com/auto/news/2445790/
Well, yeah, This is the 21st century after all.
NASA scientist: humans will live and work on the moon by 2030.
https://straightarrownews.com/cc/nasa-scientist-humans-will-live-and-work-on-the-moon-by-2030/
SUNDAY READING
STruth
THE MAINSTREAM EXCUSE FOR CENSORSHIP IN THE WEST NOW: Imagine forbidding everything that is "damage in the mind"? What would escape forbidding?"
And it's intended that nothing escape forbidding.
Closely related
Call for an FTC probe looks more like Congress chiming in from the sidelines than driving the issue (though that hasn’t stopped Musk from trolling lawmakers over the letter).
Not a read - a watch. Four and a half minutes. AND THEN a read.
Elon: Exposing Twitter's Internal Discussion Of Hunter Biden Laptop Story "Necessary To Restore Public Trust."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-exposing-twitters-internal-discussion-hunter-biden-laptop-story-necessary-restore
XiNN was on the story:
NOTE: Ben Rhodes is the dummy that said
"The average reporter we [White House staff] talk to is 27 years old... They literally know nothing."
