This week someone claiming to be a whistleblower leaked a large cache of documents on GitHub outlining the operations of one particular hacking company in China. The company is called I-Soon and it’s apparently just one of many “patriotic hacking” companies that have sprung up over the past couple decades. Patriotic in this case means they have declared allegiance to defending the Chinese Communist Party from enemies foreign and domestic.
These hacking start-ups offer their services to local police, state security or anyone else looking to defend China and steal information from its enemies. According to the information leaked this week, I-Soon offered a list of services at different prices and targeted sites at home and abroad.
One spreadsheet listed 80 overseas targets that iSoon hackers appeared to have successfully breached. The haul included 95.2 gigabytes of immigration data…
