How is China taking advantage of trimmed in America? Intelligence information stole, claim in report

China Exploiting DOGE Layoffs: China is doing big planning inside, yes, China is in the process of hitting a four on the occasion with the help of intelligence networks. In fact, the Donald Trump administration has a large -scale government retrenchment under the DOGE (Government Efficiency Department) policy, which made thousands of government employees unemployed. China has become active to take advantage of this.

Chinese intelligence agencies are targeting unemployed American federal employees and they are being seduced to leak sensitive information through fake jobs and counseling firms.

How is this operation being done?
According to the Reuters report, the network -linked networks are attracting these former government employees through fake job listings, fake counseling agencies.

1. Fake jobs advertisements are posted on sites like LinkedIn, Cracklist and Redit.

2. Former government employees are contacted directly and offer high paying salary like ‘Senior Consultant’.

3.Sensitive information is sought during the job application process, without telling that it can use Chinese intelligence agencies.

4.The new unemployed are deliberately targeted, as they are financially struggling and can come quickly in temptation.

Dog tritter and China’s strategy
A large number of American intelligence, employees who had worked in defense and cyber security sectors suddenly became unemployed due to Doge’s trimming. Many of these officers were associated with top-secret government projects. According to experts, China is mainly targeting those who have recently been expelled from the government and unemployed, who have experience of working in national security, defense and intelligence, who need a new job and who are financially weak.

How does this network of China works?
According to the investigation by Reuters’ reports and cyber security researcher Max Laser, several fake counseling firms (Rivarmarg Strategies and Wavex Innovation) are recruiting former US government employees.

How are they operating?
On analyzing data of these companies, it was revealed that these Smio is digitally connected to a Chinese firm called Intelligence. The job advertisement is specially made by targeting ‘recently extracted American federal employees’. The addresses of the offices of fake companies are often related to empty or shell companies. A former employee said that two unnamed Chinese agents named ‘Eric’ and ‘Will’ gave him thousands of dollars to post job listing.

Why is this the biggest danger of cyber espionage?
The US Justice Department recently revealed in a report that this spy campaign of China is not limited to hacking. Now it focuses on recruiting human sources. According to FBI, this recruitment effort of China is the largest cyber espionage program on the planet. Some experts say that the most dangerous cyber attack against the US may not be a virus or ransomware, but can recruit real detectives within American agencies.

Such detective efforts have been made before
Let me tell you that this is not the first time a foreign intelligence agency has targeted American officials in this way. CIA adopted a similar strategy in Russia, in which he was trying to recruit Russian officials by posting videos on dark web and telegram. At the same time, in 2020, a person named ‘June Wei Yeo’ of Singapore had confessed to gathering information by giving fake consulting jobs to American government officials.