Our cyber threat team gives observations on i-Soon’s leaked documents. This is an expert of CyberScoop's article. Read more at CyberScoop.
A tranche of documents posted to GitHub five days ago reveals that Chinese contractors working to support Beijing’s hacking operations...Since their release over the weekend, the trove of documents from a Chinese offensive security company, I-SOON, have stunned researchers, who say the set of contracts, product manuals and employee lists leaked online provides an unprecedented view of how private companies support China’s increasingly aggressive hacking operations.
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Analysts with the Taiwan-based TeamT5 cybersecurity firm said the leaked documents support their longstanding analysis that “China’s private cybersecurity sector is pivotal in supporting China’s APT attacks globally.”
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The material also confirms prior TeamT5 findings highlighting the company’s work with the Chinese government to target online gambling, as well as the company’s own money-driven ransomware campaigns, which are likely being conducted because “China’s national security cut the budget to pay these private companies.”
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