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07/13/2023

10/14/2020

Our CEO, Robert Potter, provides his take on increased government oversight of university agreements with China

The move is overdue, as public entities and state governments have proven unable to fully vet their agreements with China.

09/25/2020

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09/24/2020

Download China's Zhenhua Data Leak

On Monday the 14th of September, a consortium of international news outlets released reports of a leaked database from China's Zhenhua Data Information Technology Co. that included significant amounts of data pertaining to over 2.4 million people.

The database included the details of prominent figures and their
families from around the world including key national decision makers from Australia and the United States of America. Internet 2.0's contribution was to restore the corrupted data, and in doing so uncovered the details of over 52,000 American, 35,000 Australian and nearly 10,000 British citizens.

Zhenhua Data Leak from Internet 2.0. Read about the story from the insiders.

09/23/2020

Facebook deletes several fake Chinese accounts targeting Trump and Biden, in first takedown of its kind

The action underscored how online actors in China have taken an interest in election-year politics in the United States.

09/19/2020

A major international media investigation has revealed that a technology firm linked to the Chinese Communist Party has created and mined a global database of 2.4 million individuals – many of them political leaders, scientists, journalists and others in positions of influence – based on their online presence in order to monitor them and their networks.

The revelations that Chinese tech firm Zhenhua has built a database of 2.4 million individuals for intelligence operations are significant though unsurprising.

09/17/2020

U.S. Charges Chinese Nationals in Cyberattacks on More Than 100 Companies

Victims include software firms, social-media and video game companies, universities and foreign governments, Justice Department says

Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against five Chinese citizens that officials said appeared to be tied to Chinese intelligence with hacking more than 100 companies in the U.S. and overseas, including social-media firms, universities and telecommunications providers.

09/16/2020

Our CEO Mr. Robert Potter speaking on Sky News about the 2.4 million people and 650,000 organisations that have been the target of the open-source surveillance activities by Chinese intelligence.

The families of Australian politicians have been the target of open-source surveillance by a Chinese company that claims to have done work on behalf of Chinese intelligence, cyber security experts claim. In an exclusive interview with Sky News Australia, cyber security analysts Robert Potter and Chr...

09/15/2020

For Australia that means more than 35,000 individuals among a global database of 2.4 million people and 650,000 organisations.

Zhenhua boasts of collecting 3 billion articles from 40,000 sources.

The scale of this collection, which is done through scraping the servers of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Crunchbase, potentially allows an intelligence agency or government department to quickly pull up key data on an individual or industry and identify their connections to others in the field.

Leading figures in Australia's nascent space industry suspect their extensive profiling in a Chinese database can be linked to repeated cyber attacks, as Beijing seeks a technological advantage in the strategic sector.