‘Data can place the lives of frontline military or other personnel at risk’: FBI warns that China is luring Western military and intelligence operatives with 'gig-work' job offers to steal secrets

• China is luring military and intelligence workers with 'gig-work' jobs
• Employees are lured through interviews and written assessments
• China pieces together separate reports into 'a comprehensive operational picture'

China is targeting Western military, intelligence, and government employees with honeypot job offers in order to steal secrets and gather information on government policy, as well as military strategy, capabilities and installations.

You may already be familiar with North Korea’s attempts to sneak into Western tech companies through job applications, but China has switched up the playbook to lure those looking for employment in the foreign policy and defense analyst fields.

The problem has become so severe that the FBI, alongside the Five Eyes intelligence community, has issued a warning against the employment scam in order to prevent the unintentional sharing of classified and privileged information with China.

The warning states that Chinese intelligence operatives are posing as employees of private consultancies,...

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