Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list

Chinese infosec blog MXRN last week reported a data breach at a security company called Knownsec that has ties to Beijing and China’s military.

MXRN says the company leaked over 12,000 classified documents, “including information on Chinese state-owned cyber weapons, internal tools, and global target lists.”

The trove also apparently included evidence of Remote Access Trojans that can crack Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. The Android code can reportedly extract information from popular Chinese messaging apps, and from Telegram.

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