How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies

Topsec and Venustech were two companies that had helped these efforts. Topsec used a number of former Honkers, including the founder of Union Union Union of China, and the founder of Topsec once admitted in an interview that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army had directed his company. In 2015, Topsec was linked to the state -sponsored electronic operations, including anthem insurance breach in the United States.

Over the years, many tools used by Chinese APT groups were built by Honkers, PLA and MSS extracted them for weak and exploitation research. In 1999, Huang Shen (iceberg), a member of the Green Army, “GLACIER”, a remote arrival Trojan. The following year, he is the XFocus XFocus, which is the X-Scan, a tool for scanning networks for weaknesses that are still used by infiltrators in China today. In 2003, Honker Union HTRAN, a tool to hide the attacker’s location by redirecting their traffic through the agent, which APTS used in China. TAN and a member of NCph Zhou Jibing (Whg) were believed to have created Plugx Backdooor in 2008, which was used by more than 10 Chinese Apts. According to BeninCasa, ZHou developed the matter to the production of ShadowPad, which was used by APT 41 and others.

Over the years, the American leaks and accusations against the former Hunkers have revealed their alleged career after Hunker, as well as China’s use of profitable companies for government piracy operations. It includes the latter I-SOON and Integity Tech, both of which were launched by the former Honkers.

Wu Haibo launched, formerly from Green Army, 0x557, I-Non in 2010. Last year, someone leaked I-SOON interior files and chat records, and exposed the company spying on behalf of MSS and MPS. In March of this year, the United States was accused of eight I-SOON employees and two MPS officers due to piracy operations that targeted US government agencies, Asian Foreign Ministry, Plartizers, and the media.

Integity Tech, which was founded in 2010 by former Green Army member Cai Jingjing (CBIRD), was approved by the United States this year due to relations with global infants.

This year, the United States also accused the former Green Army members Chu and Wu to perform government piracy operations and offered ZHOU on links to APT 27. In addition to engaging in the state -sponsored piracy, it was claimed that he has managed the data sabotage service to sell some stolen data to customers, including intelligence pain.

This is not different from the early generation of American infiltrators who have also moved to become the founders of a cybersecurity company, and they were recruited by the National Security Agency and the CIA or the contractors rented them to perform piracy operations for American operations. However, unlike the United States, the full intelligence authorities in China forced some Chinese citizens and companies to cooperate with the state in conducting espionage, Kozy notes.

“I think China has just thought,” we can participate in the choice [the Honkers] For state interests. Cosi says: “And … because many of these young people had national tendencies to start, the service was pressed by saying,” Hey, you will do a lot of really good things for the country. ” Also, many of them began to realize that they could be rich. “