Allegation: Genetic testing company 23andMe sold users’ data to the Chinese government. Evaluation: Rating: Appeared as satire In May 2024, a rumor spread that 23andMe, a genetic testing company that provides information about ancestry and health variables using a saliva sample, was selling users’ data to the Chinese government. The claim can be found on… Read More »
A Cabinet minister has described China as a “security threat” as the government faces demands for the country to be officially labeled a “threat”. The government now describes China as an “epoch-defining challenge” but has faced pressure from MPs in the House of Commons to formally upgrade its assessment of Beijing. The volume of these… Read More »
A Cabinet minister has said the Government does not want to “start trade problems” with China after calling for a cyber attack on the Electoral Commission. The government has been accused of being too weak to respond to attacks by Chinese state-based actors on the UK imposing sanctions on two individuals and a company. Speaking… Read More »
Britain and the US have accused China of waging a global campaign of “malicious” cyberattacks in an unprecedented joint operation to uncover Beijing’s espionage. Britain has accused China of targeting its Electoral Commission watchdog and being behind an online “reconnaissance” campaign targeting the email accounts of MPs and their colleagues. British intelligence services believe Chinese… Read More »
Chinese officials decried the lack of “fairness” in the United States last week following the swift passage of a House bill calling for Chinese company ByteDance to divest popular social media app TikTok. A spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry accused the United States of using national security as a cover to “deliberately suppress other countries’… Read More »
UK TikTok ban British defense chiefs have faced calls to ban video-sharing app TikTok over fears sensitive data could be useful to Chinese spies. TikTok is a key source of intelligence for China’s vast intelligence network and its use by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) should end immediately, a former defense chief has told The… Read More »
US authorities are investigating newly leaked documents from a Chinese technology firm for clues about how the government in Beijing allegedly used the company in extensive hacking campaigns, multiple US cybersecurity officials familiar with the matter told CNN. The Biden administration’s investigation into the leak is ongoing, but private experts told CNN it offers some… Read More »
A set of documents from I-Soon, a private contractor competing for Chinese government contracts, show hackers breached the security of more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes (I-Hwa CHENG). A massive data leak analyzed by experts this week revealed that a Chinese tech security firm managed to infiltrate foreign governments,… Read More »