Security News > 2023 > June > Meet TeamT5, the Taiwanese infosec outfit taking on Beijing and defeating its smears

In late September 2021, staff at Taiwanese threat intelligence company TeamT5 noticed something very nasty: a fake news report accusing it of conducting phishing attacks against Japan's government and local tech companies.

"We can't keep off the internet, even when on holiday. The attackers weren't counting on that," threat intelligence analyst Che-Cheng Chang told The Reg when we dropped in to TeamT5's Taipei offices last week during the Computex conference.

TeamT5 has long expected that Beijing is aware of its work.

Although around 35 percent of attacks TeamT5's researchers see are directed against Taiwan, the rest are in other countries like Japan, Korea, India, or the USA. That's why their business is global - 40 percent of clients are outside Taiwan, mostly in other Asia-Pacific countries.

The firm's fearlessness in identifying APT attacks it believes are sponsored by the Chinese government is likely what eventually made TeamT5 a target.

Within a week, a newswire published a fake press release, supposedly from security vendor Kaspersky, again alleging TeamT5 had conducted an offensive cyber-op against Japan's government.

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