Mandarin-language videos on May 1, 2025, targeting disillusioned Chinese officials to recruit them as informants against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The cinematic videos portray fictional senior and junior officials frustrated by corruption and Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaigns. Building on a 2024 initiative, the campaign provides secure contact instructions in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English to bypass China’s “Great Firewall.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe underscored China as a key intelligence focus, seeking insights into military, cyber technology, and foreign policy.
China’s Foreign Ministry has not responded, though its intelligence agency continues to counter such recruitment efforts.
Mandarin-language videos on May 1, 2025, targeting disillusioned Chinese officials to recruit them as informants against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The cinematic videos portray fictional senior and junior officials frustrated by corruption and Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaigns. Building on a 2024 initiative, the campaign provides secure contact instructions in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English to bypass China’s “Great Firewall.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe underscored China as a key intelligence focus, seeking insights into military, cyber technology, and foreign policy.
China’s Foreign Ministry has not responded, though its intelligence agency continues to counter such recruitment efforts.
Bitcoin mining is the process of adding new transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain. It’s a tough job. People who choose to mine Bitcoin use a process called proof of work, deploying computers in a race to solve mathematical puzzles that verify transactions.To entice miners to keep racing to solve the puzzles and support the overall system, the Bitcoin code rewards miners with new Bitcoins. “This is how new coins are created” and new transactions are added to the blockchain, says Okoro.
Why Telegram?
Telegram has no known backdoors and, even though it is come in for criticism for using proprietary encryption methods instead of open-source ones, those have yet to be compromised. While no messaging app can guarantee a 100% impermeable defense against determined attackers, Telegram is vulnerabilities are few and either theoretical or based on spoof files fooling users into actively enabling an attack.
