A strange leak that shows some of the Chinese hacking business shows that it’s big and that they do some shady things.
Police and a private contractor with ties to the Chinese government leaked internal papers that showed a lot of the shady business that goes on behind the scenes. In China, there are a lot of private hacking firms that steal data from other countries and sell it in China.
China doesn’t really hide their hacking firms because everyone in the country knows about them. But until these papers were leaked, no one knew how they really worked. These papers were leaked by a company called I-Soon, and they showed the shady things they do to make money.
Chat records that were leaked in papers showed that people liked it when officials hosted fancy dinners and drank a lot. It was also shown that bidding for contracts is fixed and that they pay “introduction fees” of thousands of dollars to people who bring in profitable projects.
She said on her blog that the company “is profit-driven.” Mei Danowski is a cybersecurity expert. “It depends on people you know, who you dine and drink with, and who you are friends with,” she said.
There is a big hacking business in China. It has been around since the 1990s, when the internet was just starting to grow. Wu Haibo, who started and runs I-Soon, was a member of the first hacktivist group, which was called Green Army.
As the internet grew, China’s hacking business took off, and they had a very strict hiring process. As high-profile attacks got more common and more people were attacked, they became a problem.
Chris Wray, the director of the FBI, said that there are not enough cyber police to fight the large number of hackers working in China.
