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A state-linked Chinese hacking group drew up a hit-list of nearly 20 UK targets, including the Foreign Office and the Department for Exiting the European Union, a data leak has revealed.

A massive data leak originating from Chinese cybersecurity vendor I-Soon has exposed the extent of its involvement in global surveillance operations, including targeting countries such as Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the UK.

Over the weekend, someone posted a cache of files and documents apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon. This leak gives cybersecurity researchers and rival governments an unprecedented chance to look behind the curtain of Chinese government hacking operations facilitated by private contractors. Like the hack-and-leak operation that targeted the Italian spyware maker Hacking Team in 2015, the I-Soon leak includes company documents and internal communications, w...

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The significant drop in the volume of frozen Russian assets in Austria, as observed over the past year, mirrors a broader trend seen in other countries, where…

Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government. It's a trove that reveals and catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners. Among the apparent targets of tools provided by the impacted company, I-Soon, are ethnicities and dissidents in parts of China that have seen significant anti-government protests...

The dump, which analysts consider highly significant even if it does not reveal any especially novel or potent tools, includes hundreds of pages of contracts, marketing presentations, product manuals, and client and employee lists.

China has increasingly turned to private companies in campaigns to hack foreign governments and control its domestic population.

The trove catalogues apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners.

AP – Chinese police are investigating an unauthorised and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation’s top policing agency and other parts of its government — a trove that catalogues apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners. Among the apparent targets of […]