China hack on MPs worse than Government admitted, with at least 30 targeted

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It is unclear at this stage why the full effect of the hacking attack was not revealed by Mr Dowden, but sources toldParliamentarians in the group were sent infected emails from an account posing as a democracy-focused news website under the domainThe emails contained spyware hidden within the images in a spear-phishing campaign using pixel technology capable of sending personal information to an unauthorised third-party server in order to steal private data from users,The same false domain was...

“It’s just so redolent of what happened in the 30s. You know, making excuses for China, warning them but you know, nothing’s really done.”

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