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The leaked documents reveal China's state-sponsored hacking efforts targeting databases and communications in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and elsewhere in Asia. Chinese security firm I-Soon is one of the companies supporting these hacking activities, working for various Chinese government entities. The leak exposes the extent of China's cyberespionage operations and its use of private contractors.

Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized 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 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: ethnicities and dissidents in parts of China that have seen significant anti-government protests, such as Hong Kong or the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang in China’s far west. The dump of scores ...

In July 2021, someone sent Google a batch of malicious code that could be used to hack Chrome, Firefox, and PCs running Microsoft Defender. More than a year later in November 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group, the company’s team that investigates government-backed threats, published a blog post analyzing those exploits and the Heliconia framework. Google’s researchers concluded that the code belonged to Variston, a Barcelona-based startup that was unknown to the public.

Google calls out a few surveillance software companies that have been enabling the use of dangerous hacking tools

The Pentagon is putting a premium on digital weaponry and sensors, including jammers, hacking tools and devices that can quickly cue onto communications.