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China’s global “listening post”: what today’s joint advisory really says

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Amer Altaf
Aug 27, 2025
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A coalition of cyber agencies (including the UK’s NCSC) has confirmed that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have quietly turned everyday network gear—especially internet routers—into a worldwide espionage system. They did it mostly by exploiting known security flaws and weak configurations, then hiding in plain sight to siphon communications data over lo…

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