U.S. and intelligence allies issue rare joint warning about China

The United States and other nations in the Five Eyes intelligence partnership on Wednesday took the unusual step of issuing a joint warning that China is using LinkedIn and other job platforms to pry secret information from security professionals worldwide.

The alert reflects rising concern that China is using artificial intelligence and other emerging tools to flood career networking platforms with fake profiles and job offers targeting military officers, spies and others with access to classified or sensitive information, security officials said.

The rare “safeguarding” alert warned that “China’s military intelligence services are using an increasingly wide array of professional networking sites and online job platforms to target Five Eyes government and military personnel.”

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