Security News > 2024 > February > Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing's cyber-attackers for hire

A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing.

Analysis of the docs by infosec vendor SentinelOne characterizes I-Soon as "a company who competes for low-value hacking contracts from many government agencies."

Infosec luminary Brian Krebs's take on another document is that it describes how I-Soon has "Various 'clients' that appear to be different Chinese government agencies seeking access to foreign government systems."

The trove is remarkable as it appears to be the first known instance of a leak from a Chinese hacker-for-hire.

Documents detailing how I-Soon tries to win work from Chinese government agencies do therefore offer insight into how Beijing outsources its infosec offensives.

The Register expects further revelations may flow from the trove, as it contains hundreds of screenshots of documents in Chinese.

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