At first glance, the offices of the IT company I-Soon in Chengdu, China, resemble those of so many other technology-related companies: colorful RGB LEDs provide green light, with marble panels, a minimalist interior design meets ‘open space’ separation through glass walls Workspace. But nothing is what it seems here.
It is a setting full of monitors, piles of technology, Chinese characters on the walls and lanterns above the entrance door – in which a whole arsenal of cyber weapons is deployed on behalf of the Chinese authorities to eavesdrop on targets, hijack social media accounts, mobile tapping telephones and intercepting foreign networks. Vulnerabilities were checked and hardware hacking tools were created for insiders. I-Soon has inadvertently entered the public spotlight following the emergence of a 190-megabyte leak that provides a rare insight into the activities of cyber mercenaries operating for the Chinese state. The documents show how they work, how much their services cost, who they monitor and how they try to plant Beijing’s propaganda in the minds of Western Internet users.
Source: Krone
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