Diplomats in Southeast Asia were targeted in a cyber-espionage campaign earlier this year, likely waged in support of operations aligned with the strategic interests of China, according to Google. The attacks, using social engineering and malware disguised as innocuous software updates, are attributed to the China-linked UNC6384 group, Alphabet Inc.’s Google Threat Intelligence Group said…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that he was working on a possible sit-down in coming days with China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of an Asean meeting in Malaysia amid a contentious trade dispute. If realised, the meeting on the periphery of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conclave would…
Beijing’s foreign ministry’s arm in Hong Kong is conducting a “rare” survey among diplomats in the city to find out whether they have faced obstacles reaching local and mainland Chinese authorities, the Post has learned. One European diplomat described the outreach as part of a “style change” by the Beijing office that involved closer supervision…