Cyber Security
Tuesday 19 March 2024
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“…the U.S. has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to the U.S.’ national security…”
ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 170 million users. -
"They [the U.S.] have recently made unfounded allegations, in particular, against Russia, regarding plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space. … At the same time, they have blocked our proposal… the agreement on preventing the deployment of weapons in outer space, which we drafted back in 2008.”
Russia’s planned deployment of nuclear-armed anti-satellite weapons into space would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which Moscow signed. -
''In the case of Binance, In the last year, 26 billion dollars has passed through Binance Nigeria from sources and users who we cannot adequately identify.''
Nigeria’s Central Bank is capable of tracking illicit financial transaction but isn’t doing so because of corruption. -
“The Chinese government….allows no country or individual to engage in cyberattacks and other illegal activities on Chinese soil or using Chinese infrastructure.”
Source: Website of Chinese Embassy in the Philippines, Feb 5, 2024 Website of Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands, Feb 6, 2024China has a documented history of malicious and espionage cyberattacks around the world, most of which are linked to Chinese government actors. -
“Canada was a downright liar and disseminator of false information….Beijing has never meddled in another nation’s domestic affairs.”
The Canadian government report exposed China’s Spamouflage campaign designed to use social media to influence public opinion and politics in target countries. -
“The IPR rhetoric is just one of the many disguises that the U.S. employs to conceal its real intention to crack down on emerging economies like China, whom it perceives as a potential threat to its economic hegemony.”
U.S. legal action against China for economic espionage is a response to Beijing’s large-scale theft of intellectual property. -
“Global power is exactly what the so-called West has at stake in its game. But this game is certainly dangerous, bloody and, I would say, dirty.”
Putin’s war on Ukraine has killed thousands of innocent Ukrainian civilians and soldiers on both sides. Putin initiated the bloodshed without any military provocation from Ukraine. -
“[Some U.S. law enforcement officials] have sought to suppress Chinese companies …”
U.S. prosecutors say two Chinese spies paid Bitcoin bribes to a double agent for inside info about an ongoing criminal case against a company identified as Huawei Technologies. -
“[Proofpoint] has frequently collaborated with the U.S. government to systematically spread disinformation on the so-called ‘China hacking attacks,’ serving as the ‘white gloves’ of the U.S. government.”
China has long sought to deflect growing body of evidence showing state involvement in global hacking operations. -
“This tool and similar tools are very important tools in the fight against terrorism and in the fight against serious crime, but they are not intended for widespread ‘phishing’ among Israeli citizens or public figures in the country.”
Israeli-made Pegasus spyware has been used globally by repressive states to crackdown on dissent. A new expose reveals its abuse inside Israel. -
“With regard to what you mentioned about cyberattack, China firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyberattacks. It will never encourage, support or condone cyberattacks.”
Though a perfect fingerprint is hard to come by in clandestine cyber-operations, Beijing has repeatedly been linked to malicious online activity. -
“You know that the Russian state is making attempts to create an international information security system on various international platforms.”
Lest we forget, Russia has a decades-long history of cyberattacks against foreign targets.