Cybersecurity Firm Leak Exposes Chinese Government Hacking Practices and Process of Penetrating Domestic and Foreign Entities.

A leaked set of documents from a Chinese cybersecurity firm has exposed the Chinese government's practice of outsourcing hacking activities to private companies. These records reveal that the government has engaged in state-sponsored hacking, such as infiltrating foreign databases, monitoring domestic online gambling firms, and surveilling ethnic minorities within China. This outsourcing of hacking tasks to private contractors signifies a change in the Chinese bureaucratic structure. The article discusses the extent and methods of Chinese hacking, emphasizing the potential risks it poses to the US and other foreign entities. It also examines the cooperation and limitations in bilateral agreements between the US and China concerning cybercrime. The lack of specific regulations in international law for governing cyberspace and the difficulties in applying existing conventions and principles to cyber activities are also explored. The article concludes with a separate report on the extradition of an individual charged with an Iranian murder plot against a journalist in the US. [Extracted from the article]