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INTELLIGENCE REPORT: MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR & THE LAW

8718975491?profile=RESIZE_400xActivity Summary - Week Ending 26 March 2021:

  • Red Sky Alliance identified 26,343 connections from new unique IP addresses
  • Analysts identified 2,393 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
  • 47 new unique email Accounts compromised with Keyloggers were Observed
  • Go Daddy-East is Compromised
  • Netbounce
  • Clast82 Android Malware
  • Google & WebView
  • XcodeSpy
  • Clubhouse app
  • SkyGlobal
  • WeChat hits

Link to full report: IR-21-085-001_weekly_085.pdf

Chinese Tech Giant Tencent and its Relationship with the Chinese Government

SUMMARY

China’s Tencent Games is the developer of the mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a vastly popular game that Wapack Labs has identified as being used to create botnets for conducting industrial fraud.  This report examines the relationship between Tencent and the Chinese government to explore the question of whether Tencent is a witting participant in this activity or being used by malicious actors in the government.

871403268?profile=RESIZE_710xTencent dominates the Chinese online world.  Tencent’s tex