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How a Chinese hacking firm tapped AI to supercharge cyber-spying
Internal company materials illustrate an AI-powered effort to make pilfered foreign government documents digestible for police; targets include Russia, Pakistan.
Some of China’s scrappiest hackers-for-hire are evolving into full-service private intelligence agencies, exploiting advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies to put stolen secrets of foreign governments at the fingertips of the country’s security agencies.
A trove of internal data belonging to a China-based cybersecurity company, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, provides a new window into an evolution that international cybersecurity experts have tracked in recent years.
Even the Vatican appeared to attract ZRON’s interest.
