PAX Global Raided by FBI
The name PAX Global ring a bell? They are the second largest point-of-sale equipment manufacturer in the world. Every time you swipe your credit card, or use its chip you might be using some of their equipment.
A few days ago a joint investigation of law enforcement kicked the door in at their three Jacksonville, Florida locations. PAX Global in Baymeadows, Pax Global in Englewood, and Pax Global on the Southside of town were all served with FBI search warrants. The FBI has apparently traced a number of Cyber Attacks around the world back to PAX in Jacksonville.
The Cyber Attacks took place in the European Union, and in the United States. The specifics on dates and times and effects of the attacks were not discussed, yet. What ever happened it merited Homeland Security, NCIS, FBI, and JSO all take place in the raids.
This makes like the second incident of this nature to take place here in Duval County. As some of you may remember two years ago Navy Lt. Fan Yang and his wife Ying Yang were arrested by these very same quartet of federal agencies. The Lieutenant and his wife were charged with selling top secret American equipment to China.
Kind of makes you wonder if Jacksonville had secretly become a haven for these types of gremlins. Why is there so much activity like this? Are the Chinese secretly waging their own war against us? One thing is for certain the FBI, and Homeland Security are paying closer attention to them since the China Virus was released in 2020.
A few years ago, you couldn't get a word in edgewise about China. There are a ton of companies here that still do business with them. There's Coach, Football Fanatics, and Samsonite just to name a few.
There are however a ton of companies that have moved out of China also. There is Nike, Samsung, Apple, Hasbro, Nintendo, Sony, GoPro, Stanly Black and Decker, Dell, HP, and Kia Motors. The list is actually much greater of those moving than those staying.
They have relocated to other parts of Asia like India, Viet Nam, Cambodia, The Philippines, and Mexico. Even Wal Mart has moved a great deal of their business to Mexico. They were thought to never leave China by some.
The bad news is that Viet Nam has recently signed some type of Intelligence sharing agreement with China. Also Cambodia has recently allowed the Chinese Navy to build a naval base. China has been in Cambodia for two years secretly.
For some of the business men trying to get away from the communists in China, this is terrible. China has been known to stick Q Tips up travelers ass as their new Corona Virus Test. Now China is apparently following them around Asia with said Q Tips.
In any event It looks like Jacksonville has some real demons in the closet. Oh excuse me I meant Gremlins. They just keep catching spies from China.
We might even need our own TV Show here. They could call it NCIS Jacksonville. We could even bring back the Duane Pride character from NCIS New Orleans.
Worldpay has recently swapped out all of their POS equipment. This is nothing to play with. The finances of every American may be compromised.
It would take an army of hackers to monitor this much equipment. Apparently China has such an army ready, on deck. It is good to see that the FBI and other agencies are on point, watching.
The rabbit hole on this latest arrest is deep. By the time the Feds stop digging they will surely be in China literally. Think about it... If this transaction company has been recruiting hackers, they may have their hands in all types of Chinese underworld things.
They could be processing payments for Heroin dealers from China. They could be processing payments from the many, many bootleggers that call China home. Worst case scenario they could be working for the Chinese Military, or the Russian KGB.
Its already mind boggling to think these weren't just run of the mill Cyber Attacks. Turns out there's a huge Chinese company paying the hackers to hack. It could be a Communist State run Activity.
What if the Corona Virus turns out to be a weapon? They could be paying their agents to release it, laundering it through this company. All of these questions need to be investigated, not just the Cyber Attacks.
I can guarantee there is some theft of intellectual property associated with this team of hackers. That is always on the menu for their things to do list. Well for right now, China got some 'splainin' to do in Jacksonville.
