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Chinese hackers targeted Russian defence data, report says

The Russian Defence Ministry in Moscow. A campaign detailed by a cybersecurity firm highlights Beijing’s increasingly sophisticated tactics to spy on an array of targets, including countries it considers friends. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)

TEL AVIV: The emails landed March 23 in the inboxes of scientists and engineers at several of Russia’s military research and development institutes, purportedly sent by Russia’s Ministry of Health. They carried a subject line that offered seemingly tantalizing information about a “list of persons under U.S. sanctions for invading Ukraine”.

But the emails were actually sent by state-sponsored hackers in China seeking to entice their Russian targets to download and open a…

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