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[ad_1] A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed.The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes. I-Soon also breached "democracy organisations" in China's semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, universities and the NATO military alliance, SentinelLabs researchers wrote in a blog post Wednesday. The leaked data, the contents of which AFP was unable to immediately verify, was posted last week on the online software repository GitHub by an unknown individual."The leak...

[ad_1] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several other Canadian MPs have been targeted by a 'Spamouflage' campaign connected to China, Canada-based CTV News reported.Under this campaign, a bot network leaves thousands of comments on their social media accounts, making nefarious claims. However, despite the situation, the Canadian government is not acting steadfastly enough to take any further action over this 'Spamouflage' campaign, as per CTV News. According to a statement from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the federal government's 'Rapid Response Mechanism' (RRM) detected the campaign, which it says traces back to the People's Republic of China.The campaign started in early August and "accelerated in scale" over the long weekend in September. It targeted MPs across the country...