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BEIJING: A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed.<\/p>\n
The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes.<\/p>\n
I-Soon also breached \u201cdemocracy organisations\u201d in China\u2019s semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, universities and the Nato military alliance, SentinelLabs researchers wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The leaked data, the contents of which AFP<\/em> was unable to immediately verify, was posted last week on the online software repository GitHub by an unknown individual.<\/p>\n \u201cThe leak provides some of the most concrete details seen publicly to date, revealing the maturing nature of China\u2019s cyber espionage ecosystem,\u201d SentinelLabs analysts said. I-Soon was able to breach government offices in India, Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea, among others, Malwa\u00adrebytes said in a separate post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n I-Soon\u2019s website was not available on Thursday morning, though an internet archive snapshot of the site from Tuesday says it is based in Shanghai, with subsidiaries and offices in Beijing, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The firm did not reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Asked by AFP<\/em> on Thursday about whether Beijing contracted hackers, China\u2019s foreign ministry said it was \u201cnot aware\u201d of the case. \u201cAs a principle, China firmly opposes all forms of cyberattacks and cracks down on them in accordance with law,\u201d spokesperson Mao Ning said.<\/p>\n Published in Dawn, February 23rd, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BEIJING: A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed. 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