Chinese espionage campaign hit telecommunications firms around the world

Hackers have breached into the systems of more than a dozen global telecommunications companies and have to hold on a large amount of personal as well as corporate data, researchers from a cybersecurity company said on Tuesday.

Security researchers from a cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which is a collaboration of US-Israel, said that the attackers compromised companies in more than 30 countries. 

The main aim behind this espionage is to gather information about individuals who are working in government, law enforcement and politics. The group is linked to a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign.

The tools used by hackers were similar to other attacks which were carried out by Beijing, but the country denied of involvement in any kind of mischievous activity. 

Lior Div, chief executive of Cybereason. “For this level of sophistication, it’s not a criminal group. It is a government that has capabilities that can do this kind of attack,” he told Reuters.

Cybereason said in a blog post. “They built a perfect espionage environment. They could grab information as they please on the targets that they are interested in.”

“We managed to find not just one piece of software, we managed to find more than five different tools that this specific group used,” Div said.

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