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defenceWeb 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...

Someone was stealing footage from their own security cameras. Acting on a tip from Japanese cyber researchers, the African Union’s (AU) technology staffers discovered that a group of suspected Chinese hackers had rigged a cluster of servers in the basement of an administrative annex to quietly siphon surveillance videos from across the AU’s sprawling 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 came...