Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Chinese intelligence activity abroad" in English language version.
The company is warning users today that a small percentage of Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drives purchased after August 2007 were shipped with a virus called 'virus.win32.autorun.ah.'
The ABC has been told the Australian National University (ANU) system was first compromised last year.
The attacks on Finnish internet-connected devices originating from ChinaNet, China's largest internet backbone, began spiking 12 July, just four days before Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin met in Helsinki, claimed the analysis by the Seattle-based cybersecurity firm F5.
FireEye claims to have found evidence that the attacks were staged by two groups connected to the Chinese military. One, dubbed Tonto Team by FireEye, operates from the same region of China as previous North Korean hacking operations. The other is known among threat researchers as APT10, or 'Stone Panda'—the same group believed to be behind recent espionage efforts against US companies lobbying the Trump administration on global trade. These groups have also been joined in attacks by two 'patriotic hacking' groups not directly tied to the Chinese government, Hultquist told the Journal—including one calling itself 'Denounce Lotte Group' targeting the South Korean conglomerate Lotte. Lotte made the THAAD deployment possible through a land swap with the South Korean government.
The indictment accuses Mr Gyantsan of having spied on Tibetan community members in Sweden for 'cash benefits' and says he met 'a representative of the Chinese state repeatedly in Poland, in connection with this activity'. The espionage allegedly took place in 2015–2017. When he was arrested, on returning from Warsaw, he was found to be carrying $6,000 (£4,200) in cash.
They say Mr Yang, who was elected in 2011, was investigated for the decade he spent in China, where he received military and intelligence training at so-called 'spy schools'.
Both the lures, as well as others Read said his team has seen, contain malware exploits of Microsoft Word, a common tactic against computers that either run pirated versions of Microsoft Office or versions that haven't been updated.
A cybersecurity firm in the United States believes state-sponsored Chinese hackers were trying to infiltrate an organization with connections to a US-built missile system in South Korea that Beijing firmly opposes. [...] When asked if the group could be North Koreans posing as Chinese hackers, Hultquist said his team had gathered plenty of evidence to prove the group's origins, including their use of the Chinese language.
Zhou Hongxu (周泓旭), 29, from Liaoning Province in China, was enrolled in an MBA program at National Chengchi University in Taipei 2012–2016 [...] Investigators said that Zhou allegedly was in contact with a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, whom he had met while studying in Taiwan, and was trying to persuade the contact to hand over classified information in exchange for free trips abroad.
The Chinese executive is a sales director for Huawei in Poland and his full name is Weijing Wang, the person said. Mr Wang also uses the first name Stanislaw. According to his LinkedIn page, Mr Wang worked in the Chinese consulate in Gdansk for more than four years as the assistant to the general consul before working for Huawei.
A Chinese-born member of New Zealand's parliament denied being a spy for China at a press conference on Wednesday, although he acknowledged having taught students English for information gathering at one of China's leading military academies [...] He also said the reports about his background were a 'smear campaign' and suggested that anti-Chinese racism was the motive.
Germany's domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is warning of increasing Chinese espionage all the way up to the German chancellery, according to an intelligence report obtained by weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche, a sister publication of Handelsblatt Global. The report states that Chinese spies increasingly utilize social networks such as Facebook or the business networking site Xing to recruit informants.
But on Thursday the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (SUPO) issued a press release about the incident. It said the attack was likely part of a state-sponsored cyber espionage operation. It also identified those responsible for the attack as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) 31.
Chinese companies are suspected of stealing the intellectual property of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to obtain advanced technological know-how from them, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
He cited as an example the Conference Crew, which was founded in 2016 and has since expanded its operations early this year against critics of public and private institutions in seven countries, including the Philippines, where it collected important and strategic information that it will use for the interest and advantage of China. Boland said the Conference Crew sponsored by the Chinese government has increased its attacks on the defense and banking industries, financial services, telecommunications, consulting and media. The Conference Crew attack on the government is 'predominantly [focused] on national security and diplomacy'.
Goodfellow said he could not recall if the party knew Yang had spent a decade at the People's Liberation Army-Air Force Engineering School and the Luoyang Foreign Languages Institute but it did know about him studying there. Told the two venues were commonly training grounds for Chinese intelligence officers, and the language institute specialized in preparing spies linguistically, Goodfellow said, 'He is a very good linguist.'
Without naming names, Singapore's government said state actors were behind the attack that saw thieves take information such as names, identification numbers, and outpatient prescription details. Experts are pointing fingers at China.
The debate over political influence within New Zealand intensified last year with revelations that Jian Yang, a legislator in New Zealand's then-ruling center-right National Party, had taught English to Chinese spies before leaving China in the 1990s and becoming a New Zealand citizen in 2004. Yang denied having spied for China and remains in Parliament.
In Beijing on Monday, Lu Kang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called the investigation 'complete hearsay and groundless'. He urged German officials to 'speak and act more responsibly'.
A National MP who taught English to Chinese spies didn't declare the names of the military institutions where that happened to New Zealand authorities. Jian Yang told the Herald he didn't name the Air Force Engineering University or Luoyang People's Liberation Army University of Foreign Languages when making the applications that led to New Zealand citizenship, which he was granted in 2004.
Geheimdienste werben Informanten im Internet an: Der Bund warnt vor einschlägigen Kontakten auf Linkedin.
Some European countries deliberately sensationalized the so-called 'Chinese espionage' in the past half a month. At the end of April, France set off a new upsurge of 'Chinese girl student as industrial espionage'; on 9 May, various leading media in Sweden followed suit by creating the Karolinska 'Chinese scholar espionage'; on 11 May, L'Agence France-Presse and a Belgian news website concocted a 'Chinese economic espionage website' at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. For a second, the 'Chinese espionage' incidents had spread like wildfire in the European continent. [...] When asked the reason for these false reports, Sun Ling, Counselor for Education of Chinese Embassy in Sweden, noted that the fast development of China's economy made a few people who hold biased attitude towards China feel ill at ease. They think that China's rapid development was achieved through illegal means such as grabbing advanced techniques from the Western countries. If we have a look at the latest development of such incidents, the truth will be clear that such moves are a vicious undercurrent discriminating and demonizing China.
'A man named Zhou Hongxu has been detained,' Liao Chien-yu, a judge and spokesman for the Taipei District Court, told Reuters. Liao said the named suspect was the same individual being cited in local media reports. Prosecutors asked that Zhou be taken into custody on suspicion of violating national security laws and the request was approved by the court, Liao said, adding that Zhou could be held for at least two months.
Germany's intelligence service has published the details of social network profiles which it says are fronts faked by Chinese intelligence to gather personal information about German officials and politicians [...] Among the faked profiles whose details were published were that of 'Rachel Li', identified as a 'headhunter' at 'RiseHR', and an 'Alex Li', a 'Project Manager at Center for Sino-Europe Development Studies'.
'It is no secret that China is very active in intelligence activities directed against us. It is more than cyber,' Dennis Richardson, secretary of the Defense Department, said in a speech in Canberra. [...] 'The Chinese government keeps a watchful eye inside Australian Chinese communities and effectively controls some Chinese-language media in Australia,' said Richardson.
A prominent Chinese-born academic has lost an appeal against Singapore's decision to expel him for allegedly being an 'agent of influence' for a foreign government, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
On 4 August, Singapore announced it was expelling a China-born American professor for trying to influence the city state's foreign policy on behalf of an unnamed foreign government
Fairfax Media has confirmed one of Yan's contacts was a Chinese military intelligence operative and reputed arms broker, Colonel Liu Chaoying. Yan introduced Colonel Liu to her Australian network, including a wealthy Australian businessman who took Colonel Liu on several dinner dates.
According to media reports, Justice Minister Jo Vandeurzen has claimed that hacking attacks against the Belgian Federal Government have originated in China, and are likely to have been at the bequest of the Beijing government. Separately, Belgian minister of foreign affairs Karel De Gucht has told parliament that his ministry was the subject of cyberespionage by Chinese agents several weeks ago. [...] There has been speculation that China may be interested in spying on Belgium because NATO and the European Union have headquarters in the country. It has also been suggested that China may be interested in exploring Belgium's historical connections with Central Africa.
The article claims that profiles with anodyne names such as Lily Hu or Rachel Li contact university staff or researchers in Switzerland and Europe, then encourage them to transfer know-how to China.
A retired military police officer who was on the security detail of former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) was yesterday indicted for spying for China, the Taoyuan District Prosecutors' Office said. The office said it had charged Major Wang Hung-ju (王鴻儒), 46, with violating the National Security Act (國家安全法) after he was found to be involved in espionage.
Army Major General Hsieh Chia-kang (謝嘉康), who is being investigated over allegations he leaked classified information on Taiwan's missile defense systems to China, was released late on Tuesday after posting bail, prosecutors said.
The Taipei District Prosecutors' Office is looking into allegations that New Party Youth Corps member Lin Ming-cheng (林明正) passed on personal information and contact details of soldiers in the Army Aviation and Special Forces Command's secretive Airborne Special Service Company (高空特種勤務中隊), also known as the 'Liang Shan Special Operations Company' (涼山特勤隊) to former Chinese student Zhou Hongxu (周泓旭), who has been convicted of doing intelligence work for China, the newspaper said yesterday.
Investigators said that documents show Lan passed on the personal information of six colonels and lieutenant colonels, as well as other university officers and military unit members, to China. Lan allegedly also passed on other classified military materials provided by his former colleagues and that he had agreed to develop a spy network in Taiwan to conduct espionage for China.
Hans-Georg Maassen said his agency, known by its German acronym BfV, believes more than 10,000 Germans have been targeted by Chinese intelligence agents posing as consultants, headhunters or researchers, primarily on the social networking site LinkedIn.
China and the African Union dismissed on Monday a report that Beijing had bugged the regional bloc's headquarters, which it built and paid for in the Ethiopian capital.
Swedish prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told Swedish broadcaster SVT that he man had been in contact with Chinese officials in Poland and Finland, and was paid 50,000 kronor ($6,000) on at least one occasion.
Mateusz P., who was once an MP for Poland's Samoobrona (Self-Defence) party and headed the Zmiana (Change) grouping, has been charged with working for the Russian and Chinese intelligence services and against Poland's national interests, broadcaster RMF FM reported, citing a bill of indictment that it said prosecutors had submitted against the suspect.
A naval engineer accused of trying to spy for Beijing is asking a federal judge for full access to information about Canadian Security Intelligence Service wiretaps of the Chinese Embassy. [...] Huang, 53 at the time, worked for Lloyd's Register, a subcontractor to Irving Shipbuilding Inc. He was charged under the Security of Information Act with attempting to communicate secret information to a foreign power. Police said the information related to elements of the federal shipbuilding strategy, which includes patrol ships, frigates, naval auxiliary vessels, science research vessels and icebreakers.
The attacks on Finnish internet-connected devices originating from ChinaNet, China's largest internet backbone, began spiking 12 July, just four days before Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin met in Helsinki, claimed the analysis by the Seattle-based cybersecurity firm F5.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)China and the African Union dismissed on Monday a report that Beijing had bugged the regional bloc's headquarters, which it built and paid for in the Ethiopian capital.
He cited as an example the Conference Crew, which was founded in 2016 and has since expanded its operations early this year against critics of public and private institutions in seven countries, including the Philippines, where it collected important and strategic information that it will use for the interest and advantage of China. Boland said the Conference Crew sponsored by the Chinese government has increased its attacks on the defense and banking industries, financial services, telecommunications, consulting and media. The Conference Crew attack on the government is 'predominantly [focused] on national security and diplomacy'.
A prominent Chinese-born academic has lost an appeal against Singapore's decision to expel him for allegedly being an 'agent of influence' for a foreign government, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
On 4 August, Singapore announced it was expelling a China-born American professor for trying to influence the city state's foreign policy on behalf of an unnamed foreign government
Without naming names, Singapore's government said state actors were behind the attack that saw thieves take information such as names, identification numbers, and outpatient prescription details. Experts are pointing fingers at China.
FireEye claims to have found evidence that the attacks were staged by two groups connected to the Chinese military. One, dubbed Tonto Team by FireEye, operates from the same region of China as previous North Korean hacking operations. The other is known among threat researchers as APT10, or 'Stone Panda'—the same group believed to be behind recent espionage efforts against US companies lobbying the Trump administration on global trade. These groups have also been joined in attacks by two 'patriotic hacking' groups not directly tied to the Chinese government, Hultquist told the Journal—including one calling itself 'Denounce Lotte Group' targeting the South Korean conglomerate Lotte. Lotte made the THAAD deployment possible through a land swap with the South Korean government.
A cybersecurity firm in the United States believes state-sponsored Chinese hackers were trying to infiltrate an organization with connections to a US-built missile system in South Korea that Beijing firmly opposes. [...] When asked if the group could be North Koreans posing as Chinese hackers, Hultquist said his team had gathered plenty of evidence to prove the group's origins, including their use of the Chinese language.
Chinese companies are suspected of stealing the intellectual property of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to obtain advanced technological know-how from them, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
The company is warning users today that a small percentage of Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drives purchased after August 2007 were shipped with a virus called 'virus.win32.autorun.ah.'
'A man named Zhou Hongxu has been detained,' Liao Chien-yu, a judge and spokesman for the Taipei District Court, told Reuters. Liao said the named suspect was the same individual being cited in local media reports. Prosecutors asked that Zhou be taken into custody on suspicion of violating national security laws and the request was approved by the court, Liao said, adding that Zhou could be held for at least two months.
Zhou Hongxu (周泓旭), 29, from Liaoning Province in China, was enrolled in an MBA program at National Chengchi University in Taipei 2012–2016 [...] Investigators said that Zhou allegedly was in contact with a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, whom he had met while studying in Taiwan, and was trying to persuade the contact to hand over classified information in exchange for free trips abroad.
A retired military police officer who was on the security detail of former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) was yesterday indicted for spying for China, the Taoyuan District Prosecutors' Office said. The office said it had charged Major Wang Hung-ju (王鴻儒), 46, with violating the National Security Act (國家安全法) after he was found to be involved in espionage.
Army Major General Hsieh Chia-kang (謝嘉康), who is being investigated over allegations he leaked classified information on Taiwan's missile defense systems to China, was released late on Tuesday after posting bail, prosecutors said.
The Taipei District Prosecutors' Office is looking into allegations that New Party Youth Corps member Lin Ming-cheng (林明正) passed on personal information and contact details of soldiers in the Army Aviation and Special Forces Command's secretive Airborne Special Service Company (高空特種勤務中隊), also known as the 'Liang Shan Special Operations Company' (涼山特勤隊) to former Chinese student Zhou Hongxu (周泓旭), who has been convicted of doing intelligence work for China, the newspaper said yesterday.
Investigators said that documents show Lan passed on the personal information of six colonels and lieutenant colonels, as well as other university officers and military unit members, to China. Lan allegedly also passed on other classified military materials provided by his former colleagues and that he had agreed to develop a spy network in Taiwan to conduct espionage for China.
Both the lures, as well as others Read said his team has seen, contain malware exploits of Microsoft Word, a common tactic against computers that either run pirated versions of Microsoft Office or versions that haven't been updated.
According to media reports, Justice Minister Jo Vandeurzen has claimed that hacking attacks against the Belgian Federal Government have originated in China, and are likely to have been at the bequest of the Beijing government. Separately, Belgian minister of foreign affairs Karel De Gucht has told parliament that his ministry was the subject of cyberespionage by Chinese agents several weeks ago. [...] There has been speculation that China may be interested in spying on Belgium because NATO and the European Union have headquarters in the country. It has also been suggested that China may be interested in exploring Belgium's historical connections with Central Africa.
Some European countries deliberately sensationalized the so-called 'Chinese espionage' in the past half a month. At the end of April, France set off a new upsurge of 'Chinese girl student as industrial espionage'; on 9 May, various leading media in Sweden followed suit by creating the Karolinska 'Chinese scholar espionage'; on 11 May, L'Agence France-Presse and a Belgian news website concocted a 'Chinese economic espionage website' at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. For a second, the 'Chinese espionage' incidents had spread like wildfire in the European continent. [...] When asked the reason for these false reports, Sun Ling, Counselor for Education of Chinese Embassy in Sweden, noted that the fast development of China's economy made a few people who hold biased attitude towards China feel ill at ease. They think that China's rapid development was achieved through illegal means such as grabbing advanced techniques from the Western countries. If we have a look at the latest development of such incidents, the truth will be clear that such moves are a vicious undercurrent discriminating and demonizing China.
But on Thursday the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (SUPO) issued a press release about the incident. It said the attack was likely part of a state-sponsored cyber espionage operation. It also identified those responsible for the attack as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) 31.
Germany's intelligence service has published the details of social network profiles which it says are fronts faked by Chinese intelligence to gather personal information about German officials and politicians [...] Among the faked profiles whose details were published were that of 'Rachel Li', identified as a 'headhunter' at 'RiseHR', and an 'Alex Li', a 'Project Manager at Center for Sino-Europe Development Studies'.
Hans-Georg Maassen said his agency, known by its German acronym BfV, believes more than 10,000 Germans have been targeted by Chinese intelligence agents posing as consultants, headhunters or researchers, primarily on the social networking site LinkedIn.
Germany's domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is warning of increasing Chinese espionage all the way up to the German chancellery, according to an intelligence report obtained by weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche, a sister publication of Handelsblatt Global. The report states that Chinese spies increasingly utilize social networks such as Facebook or the business networking site Xing to recruit informants.
In Beijing on Monday, Lu Kang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called the investigation 'complete hearsay and groundless'. He urged German officials to 'speak and act more responsibly'.
Mateusz P., who was once an MP for Poland's Samoobrona (Self-Defence) party and headed the Zmiana (Change) grouping, has been charged with working for the Russian and Chinese intelligence services and against Poland's national interests, broadcaster RMF FM reported, citing a bill of indictment that it said prosecutors had submitted against the suspect.
The Chinese executive is a sales director for Huawei in Poland and his full name is Weijing Wang, the person said. Mr Wang also uses the first name Stanislaw. According to his LinkedIn page, Mr Wang worked in the Chinese consulate in Gdansk for more than four years as the assistant to the general consul before working for Huawei.
The article claims that profiles with anodyne names such as Lily Hu or Rachel Li contact university staff or researchers in Switzerland and Europe, then encourage them to transfer know-how to China.
Geheimdienste werben Informanten im Internet an: Der Bund warnt vor einschlägigen Kontakten auf Linkedin.
The indictment accuses Mr Gyantsan of having spied on Tibetan community members in Sweden for 'cash benefits' and says he met 'a representative of the Chinese state repeatedly in Poland, in connection with this activity'. The espionage allegedly took place in 2015–2017. When he was arrested, on returning from Warsaw, he was found to be carrying $6,000 (£4,200) in cash.
Swedish prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told Swedish broadcaster SVT that he man had been in contact with Chinese officials in Poland and Finland, and was paid 50,000 kronor ($6,000) on at least one occasion.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)A naval engineer accused of trying to spy for Beijing is asking a federal judge for full access to information about Canadian Security Intelligence Service wiretaps of the Chinese Embassy. [...] Huang, 53 at the time, worked for Lloyd's Register, a subcontractor to Irving Shipbuilding Inc. He was charged under the Security of Information Act with attempting to communicate secret information to a foreign power. Police said the information related to elements of the federal shipbuilding strategy, which includes patrol ships, frigates, naval auxiliary vessels, science research vessels and icebreakers.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)'It is no secret that China is very active in intelligence activities directed against us. It is more than cyber,' Dennis Richardson, secretary of the Defense Department, said in a speech in Canberra. [...] 'The Chinese government keeps a watchful eye inside Australian Chinese communities and effectively controls some Chinese-language media in Australia,' said Richardson.
Fairfax Media has confirmed one of Yan's contacts was a Chinese military intelligence operative and reputed arms broker, Colonel Liu Chaoying. Yan introduced Colonel Liu to her Australian network, including a wealthy Australian businessman who took Colonel Liu on several dinner dates.
A Fairfax Media and Four Corners investigation reports the raid targeted Sheri Yan and former Australian diplomat Roger Uren, over allegations she was involved in operations for the Chinese Communist Party.
The ABC has been told the Australian National University (ANU) system was first compromised last year.
They say Mr Yang, who was elected in 2011, was investigated for the decade he spent in China, where he received military and intelligence training at so-called 'spy schools'.
A National MP who taught English to Chinese spies didn't declare the names of the military institutions where that happened to New Zealand authorities. Jian Yang told the Herald he didn't name the Air Force Engineering University or Luoyang People's Liberation Army University of Foreign Languages when making the applications that led to New Zealand citizenship, which he was granted in 2004.
Goodfellow said he could not recall if the party knew Yang had spent a decade at the People's Liberation Army-Air Force Engineering School and the Luoyang Foreign Languages Institute but it did know about him studying there. Told the two venues were commonly training grounds for Chinese intelligence officers, and the language institute specialized in preparing spies linguistically, Goodfellow said, 'He is a very good linguist.'
A Chinese-born member of New Zealand's parliament denied being a spy for China at a press conference on Wednesday, although he acknowledged having taught students English for information gathering at one of China's leading military academies [...] He also said the reports about his background were a 'smear campaign' and suggested that anti-Chinese racism was the motive.
The debate over political influence within New Zealand intensified last year with revelations that Jian Yang, a legislator in New Zealand's then-ruling center-right National Party, had taught English to Chinese spies before leaving China in the 1990s and becoming a New Zealand citizen in 2004. Yang denied having spied for China and remains in Parliament.
A Fairfax Media and Four Corners investigation reports the raid targeted Sheri Yan and former Australian diplomat Roger Uren, over allegations she was involved in operations for the Chinese Communist Party.