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Exclusive: Five Eyes alliance fabricating evidence, building rumors of China infiltration: source

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The Five Eyes Alliance Photo: VCG

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The Five Eyes Alliance is collecting and fabricating evidence that intends to show China is “infiltrating politically into Western countries,” with the aim of tarnishing China’s image in the world, the Global Times learned from a source close to the matter. 

Analysts said this is not the first time that the Five Eyes have conspired to target China and other countries. As an alliance designed for intelligence sharing, it has been conducting covert or overt operations like theft, interference, infiltration, subversion and coercion. The Five Eyes alliance is not so much as an intelligence-sharing group but an anti-China club.

The Global Times learned that intelligence agencies in the Five Eyes willfully interrogate and harass Chinese students and scholars on questionable or no grounds at all. Some even approach Chinese communities and pressure them to become agents for the Eyes. Although the Eyes are not so sharp at telling the truth from falsehood, they are adept at meddling in the internal affairs of China, among other countries in the world.

In Hong Kong, the consulates of these countries have become the headquarters and command of interference and subversion where their consular officials reached out to anti-China forces and separatists to incite violence by providing financial support and training, the source said. 

The alliance has been obsessed with making up cases of China’s “espionage” and “infiltration” merely based on shoddy intelligence. In 2020, Australian spy authorities raided New South Wales state legislator Shaoquett Moselmane’s home for alleged links with China. But the cited political influence in Australia on behalf of China was never proven by evidence. 

In recent years, Five Eyes alliance is also stepping up its efforts to steal and attack other countries in the area of cybersecurity. 

A latest report from Anzer, a cybersecurity information platform, showed that the US military and government cyber agencies have remotely stolen more than 97 billion pieces of global internet data and 124 billion phone records in the last 30 days, which are becoming a major source of intelligence for the US and other “Five Eyes” countries.

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Five Eyes Warns of Russian Hacks on Critical Infrastructure

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Critical Infrastructure Security
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Government Hackers and Cybercriminals Are Teaming Up to Launch Attacks on the West

Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) •
April 21, 2022    

Five Eyes Warns of Russian Hacks on Critical Infrastructure
Source: CISA joint cybersecurity advisory

Russian government hackers and cybercrime groups are teaming up to launch cyberattacks against the West in retaliation for its support of Ukraine, intelligence officials warn.

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Some cybercrime groups have pledged to support the Russian government and threatened to conduct cyber operations against countries providing material support to Ukraine, authorities in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom warn. Meanwhile, other groups have conducted disruptive attacks against Ukrainian websites in support of the Russian military offensive.


“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could expose organizations both within and beyond the region to increased malicious cyber activities,” members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance write in a joint cybersecurity advisory. “This activity may occur as a response to the unprecedented economic costs imposed on Russia as well as material support provided by the United States and U.S. allies and partners.”


On the government side, Russian state-sponsored cyber operators have recently launched distributed denial-of-service attacks and previously deployed destructive malware against Ukrainian government and critical infrastructure organizations. They are able to compromise IT networks; maintain long-term, persistent access; exfiltrate sensitive data; and disrupt critical industrial control systems functions (see: US, NATO Discuss Ukrainian Cyber Aid Amid…

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Wall Street eyes cybersecurity, with Goldman Sachs announcing $125 million investment

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Growing concerns over cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the United States are prompting record investments from firms to protect critical industries.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said last month that intelligence officials were “concerned” about the possibility of Russian cyberattacks against critical U.S. infrastructure in the wake of Russia’s war with Ukraine.

“The reason we’re concerned about it is not just based on our longstanding understanding of how the Russians operate, but it’s actually the product of specific investigative work and surveillance work that we’ve been doing all together,” Wray told an audience at the Detroit Economic Club in March.

Wray’s comments came a few weeks before Tuesday’s announcement that Goldman Sachs planned to expand its reach in supply chain cybersecurity, investing $125 million in a strategic partnership with a company that serves energy, government and aerospace and defense accounts.

Nikhil Gupta, a professor with New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, who is affiliated with the NYU Center for Cyber Security, told ABC News the investment was part of a growing trend.

Over the past year, several private investment firms have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in cybersecurity. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s Liberty Strategic Capital spent $525 million to acquire mobile security vendor Zimperium last month; Turn/River Capital acquired security policy management firm Tufin for $570 million earlier this month; and software security giant McAfee sold its Enterprise business to Symphony Technology Group for $4 billion dollars in March 2021.

Gupta noted that “more than 70% of manufacturing is conducted by actually small and medium-sized companies, and these companies don’t have resources to invest in upgrading their computers or, or implementing cybersecurity solutions.”

He added, “A lot of times they are manufacturing companies and…

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Thales Eyes Purchase Of Atos Cybersecurity Business: Reports

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Thales is putting together a plan to buy Atos’ $1.41 billion cybersecurity business in a move that would break up the beleaguered IT services giant.

The Paris-based conglomerate and its adviser Centerview Partners have approached several investment firms including Bain Capital to discuss a deal that would have the private equity firms picking up the parts of Atos, No. 24 on the 2021 CRN Solution Provider 500, that Thales isn’t interested in owning, Reuters and Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Atos didn’t respond to a CRN request for comment.

Thales said in a statement Wednesday that it’s potentially interested in acquiring any cybersecurity asset that could be for sale but added that no discussions with Atos are underway on this matter. The company has no intention of moving into markets such as global IT services that it doesn’t serve already, according to the Thales statement.

[Related: Atos CEO Vows ‘Swift Turnaround’ After Issuing New Profit Warning]

Atos’ stock is up 0.09 percent to $37.03 per share since the acquisition reports were published, while Thales’ stock is down 0.5 percent to $18.22 per share over the same period. In addition to Bain, Thales’ advisers have also begun talks with CVC Capital Partners and PAI Partners over a possible joint bid for Atos, but the timing of such a move remains unclear, one source told Reuters.

Neither Bain, CVC nor PAI immediately responded to CRN requests for comment.

Bain, meanwhile, would use any joint buyout of Atos to expand its portfolio of tech assets in Europe, where it also controls Italian IT firm Engineering Group, Reuters reported. In such a deal, Thales would buy Atos’ big data and cybersecurity (BDS) arm, while private equity firms would swallow Atos’ $6.99 billion infrastructure and data management and its $4.38 billion business and platform solutions units.

Atos has rebuffed previous overtures by Thales for its BDS business and would view any move by private equity funds to launch a public offer and delist Atos from the Paris Stock Exchange as hostile and unwarranted, a source told Reuters. Similarly, the French government is expected to strongly oppose any break-up of Atos with…

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