MI5 says more than 100 UK-linked academics worked on research China's Ministry of State Security funded through front company CGTRI. Now that the link is public, staying in those projects risks prosecution under the 2023 National Security Act.
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MI5's first standalone Espionage Alert says a Beijing institute tied to China's spy ministry funded projects by more than 100 UK-linked academics. Universities were told to review any current or planned work with the institute immediately.
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MI5 named a research funder it links to China's Ministry of State Security and said more than 100 UK scientists worked on projects it paid for. Continued work with it risks prosecution under the 2023 National Security Act, so partners of those labs need to check who pays.
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MI5 has named the China General Technology Research Institute, which paid 100 or more UK academics, as a front for Chinese state security. Universities and academics that keep working with it could now face prosecution under the National Security Act 2023.
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Justice says Chinese state operators laundered intrusions through infected routers and cameras in more than 130 countries since 2018. Source geography has been unreliable for years.
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Days before Trump, Xi and the big lab chiefs meet at the White House on AI policy, a Fortune essay attacks the race argument with an estimate that Chinese companies hold about 5 percent of the world's AI computing capacity.
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Anthropic's CEO asked labs and governments to slow capability gains so safety work can catch up. Beijing called that fearmongering and a Cold War playbook. Trump said the US is ahead and whoever wins AI wins.
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Three seized domains and a roughly 390-item indicator list arrive with no named bank victim, so any institution running the listed products has to answer a multi-year exposure question out of whatever logs it happened to keep.
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A court order killed two Chinese contractor hacking platforms because their command domains were hard-coded into the malware. The pivot hardware they infected is still nobody's asset.
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A leaked candidate list obtained by the Financial Times shows Hainan Xiandun recruiting translators through ordinary job adverts. Chinese espionage capacity grows on a labour-market curve, not a clearance queue.
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