2024-12-17
22 分钟Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with potentially deadly consequences. All of this could sound a little familiar to regular listeners. Earlier this year, Click Here reported on a huge leak of internal documents from a private cybersecurity company that pulled back the curtain on the secret world of China’s hacker-for-hire network.
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The Click Here team is taking a break from producing brand new episodes in December so we can work on some great stories we want to bring you in 2025.
In the meantime, we wanted to share an episode from our archives that we think will help explain this thing that happened.
Earlier this month, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company called Sichuan Silence and charged one of its employees with compromising thousands of firewalls.
Now, all of this might ring a bell for our regular listeners because earlier this year we did a story about a huge leak of internal documents from a Chinese cybersecurity company called Isung.
And it turns out that leak pulled back the curtain for the first time on the secret world of China's hacker for hire network.
Instead of using cybercriminals to hack adversaries as Russia is thought to do, China has formalized and corporatized it.
And one of the companies listed as working with Isun on Chinese government hacking projects, none other than Sichuan Silence, the company the US just sanctioned.
So today, a return to the Isoon paper story.
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A few years ago, Mae Danowski co founded a substack called Natto Thoughts.
She's a threat intelligence analyst who specializes in China's cybersecurity and she has a strong and loyal following.
But nothing crazy.
That is until this past President's Day weekend when this news story broke.
There's been an extraordinary leak of a trove of documents by the Chinese government.
That reveals spyware and even large scale.
Cyber attacks against foreign governments, companies and more.
That would be very upper alley except as fate would have it, she had taken a rare weekend off and had gone to Philadelphia with her husband and niece.