Foreign forces have used deepfakes and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to create public panic and obtain sensitive information, posing a threat to China’s national security, the country’s top intelligence agency has warned. Deepfake technology, which uses AI’s deep learning algorithms to simulate and forge images, audio and video, can be abused or used maliciously…
China’s top counter-espionage agency has accused the United States of conducting cyberattacks against the country’s national time centre, which it said could have had a severe impact on the orderly functioning of society. In a social media post on Sunday, the Ministry of State Security said the US National Security Agency was behind a number…
China’s top anti-espionage agency has warned of foreign attempts to bypass Chinese export controls to obtain rare minerals essential for cutting-edge military applications. The warning from the Ministry of State Security on Saturday came as it revealed two antimony smuggling cases, one involving a family-run criminal network and the other a group of traffickers. “Certain…
A U.S. Department of Commerce employee and U.S. citizen has been unable to leave China since mid-April and is under heavy surveillance by the Chinese government. Chinese intelligence officers reportedly began tracking the employee, who is also a veteran, after he traveled to a region of southwest China to visit family members. The intelligence officers…
A number of suspects involved in strategic mineral smuggling had been arrested, Chinese authorities said on Saturday, while pledging stronger enforcement of export controls to prevent illegal shipments and technology transfers for military use. The Ministry of Commerce statement came during a high-level export-control meeting in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region – an…
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Ministry of State Security on Friday said foreign spy agencies had tried to “steal” rare earths and pledged to crack down on infiltration and espionage targeted at its critical mineral sector. Foreign intelligence agencies and their agents had colluded with “domestic lawbreakers” to steal rare earth-related items from China, posing a serious…
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Federal authorities have charged two Chinese nationals with acting as unregistered agents of the Chinese government in an alleged plot to infiltrate the U.S. military and collect national security intelligence on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the country’s primary intelligence agency. “Chen with “Associate #1″ (his wife), and…
In June 2020, India and China were engaged in a skirmish along their 3,488-km border. Just four months later, around 10 in the morning on October 12, power went off in Mumbai. It was a Monday, and the outage crippled India’s city of dreams—millions were affected as mobile networks and public transport, including local trains,…