The cache — containing >570 files, images & chat logs — offers an unprecedented look inside the ops of one of the firms that #China’s govt agencies hire for on-demand, mass #data-collecting ops.
The files — posted to GitHub…& deemed credible by #cybersecurity experts…— detail contracts to extract foreign data over 8 yrs & describe targets w/in ≥20 foreign govts & territories, including India, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Taiwan & Malaysia….
“We rarely get such unfettered access to the inner workings of any intelligence operation,” said John Hultquist, chief analyst of MandiantIntelligence, a #cybersecurity firm owned by GoogleCloud. “We have every reason to believe this is the authentic data of a contractor supporting global & domestic #cyberespionage operations out of China,” he said.
US #intelligence ofcls see #China as the greatest long-term threat to American #security & have raised alarm about its targeted #hacking campaigns.
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