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Written by Reuters -
AU signage.
When diplomats gathered at African Union headquarters earlier this year to prepare for its annual leaders’ summit, employees made a disturbing discovery.
Someone was stealing footage from their security cameras.
Acting on a tip from Japanese cyber researchers, AU technology staffers discovered a group of suspected Chinese hackers rigged a cluster of servers in the basement of an administrative annex to siphon surveillance videos from the AU campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital.
The security breach was carried out by a Chinese hacking group nicknamed “Bronze President,” according to a five-page internal memo reviewed by Reuters. It said the affected cameras covered “AU offices, parking areas, corridors, and meeting rooms.”