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SentinelOne
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Unmasking I-Soon | The Leak That Revealed China's Cyber Operations | SentinelOne
February 22, 2024 - Listed in the documentation were pictures of custom hardware snooping devices, including a tool meant to look like a powerbank that actually passed data from the victim’s network back to the hackers. Other documentation diagrammed some of the inner workings of I-SOON’s offensive toolkit.
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WIRED
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A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets | WIRED
February 24, 2024 - Hundreds of documents linked to a Chinese hacking-for-hire firm were dumped online this week. The files belong to i-Soon, a Shanghai-based company, and give a rare glimpse into the secretive world of the industry that supports China’s state-backed ...
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CyberScoop
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Leaked documents show how firm supports Chinese hacking operations | CyberScoop
February 21, 2024 - Since their release over the weekend, the trove of documents from a Chinese offensive security company, I-SOON, have stunned researchers, who say the set of contracts, product manuals and employee lists leaked online provides an unprecedented view of how private companies support China’s increasingly aggressive hacking operations.
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Palo Alto Networks
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Data From Chinese Security Services Company i-Soon Linked to Previous Chinese APT Campaigns
June 7, 2024 - We continue to analyze the leaked data to verify these claims. The GitHub repository contains a mixture of online chat conversations, screenshots and probable victim data, as well as sales- and support-related documents...
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R Street Institute
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The Download: What to Think About the I-Soon Chinese Hacker Contractor Leak - R Street Institute
February 27, 2024 - I-Soon documents revealed, among other things, spreadsheets with 80 overseas targets that have been breached and contract data that described targets of numerous foreign governments, primarily in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Times of India
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IBPS SO 2025: Link for uploading documents for interview active, Check details here | - The Times of India
February 12, 2025 - Those eligible for the interview round can submit their documents via the official IBPS website, ibps.in. The IBPS SO interview call letter has been issued and will remain available on the official website until February 25, 2025.
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Federal Trade Commission
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Guidance for Voluntary Submission of Documents During the Initial Waiting Period | Federal Trade Commission
March 5, 2022 - Providing information early in the initial 30-day waiting period increases the likelihood that staff will be able to focus its investigation and resolve outstanding questions about the transaction during its preliminary investigation. In order that parties may effectively use the initial waiting period, counsel should be prepared to discuss staff's most likely concerns and voluntarily provide documents and information that may assist staff in quickly and efficiently evaluating whether the proposed transaction raises competitive concerns. The list below is provided to help parties understand the type of documents and information that are useful to Bureau of Competition staff analyzing proposed transactions filed under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”). Staff generally has requested these documents and information in a “voluntary request letter” or “access letter” during the initial waiting period and prior to any issuance by the Commission of a Request
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KELA Cyber
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I-Soon Leak Exposes Chinese Cyber Espionage Operations
March 7, 2024 - Lists of organizations and networks allegedly breached by I-Soon · Many image files, including screenshots of folders, text conversations and internal notes on potential targets · Page-by-page images of documentation on I-Soon products and services, among which are tools to monitor domestic social platforms and Twitter, offensive tools, and test tools.
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The Record
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Leaked documents open the lid on China’s commercial hacking industry | The Record from Recorded Future News
April 14, 2025 - A trove of files from a Chinese company called I-Soon includes hacking contracts with public agencies, a repository of targets and years of chats among employees.
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Wikipedia
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i-Soon leak - Wikipedia
May 21, 2026 - Some further reports found that their target were extended to the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, the European Union, and the United States. In addition, the documents showed that i-Soon had deceived the Chinese government and their internal issues, including financial problems, product ...
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Axios
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Document leak exposes China's reliance on offensive cyber firms
February 27, 2024 - The company advertised that it ... as well as the Ministry of State Security. Zoom in: The leaked documents include a product manual from 2020 that details the specific hacking tools that I-Soon either used itself in operations ...
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Foreign Policy
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Leaked i-Soon Documents Reveal Chinese Government Hacking Efforts
February 23, 2024 - One spreadsheet listed 80 overseas targets that i-Soon appeared to have successfully hacked, and another hinted at the firm selling unspecified data related to NATO in 2022. “In information warfare, stealing enemy information and destroying enemy information systems has become the key to defeating the enemy,” one of the documents said.
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SOCRadar
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Shadow Ops Exposed: Inside the Leak of China's i-Soon Cyber Espionage Empire
April 22, 2026 - I-Soon has been implicated in supplying espionage capabilities targeting ethnic groups and dissidents within China, notably in regions like Hong Kong and Xinjiang (Uyghur Autonomous Region), where there have been substantial anti-government movements. The documents provide detailed insights into the tactics employed by Chinese officials to monitor dissidents abroad, infiltrate the computer networks of other countries, and spread pro-Beijing messages on social media platforms.
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Lawfare
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The I-Soon Data Leak + Disruption, Disruption Everywhere | Lawfare
February 23, 2024 - The business documents include pitches and presentations about the company’s services including “penetration testing,” surveillance operations, and descriptions of its tools. Business pitches included in the leaked files also show I-Soon’s interest in landing surveillance contracts in China’s Xinjiang province, home of the country’s Uyghur Muslim minority.
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Recorded Future
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Attributing I-SOON: Private Contractor Linked to Multiple Chinese State-sponsored Groups
On February 18, 2024, an anonymous leak of documents from Anxun Information Technology Co., Ltd. (i-SOON), a Chinese IT and cybersecurity company, shed light on China's state-sponsored cyber espionage operations.
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France 24
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Massive leak shows Chinese firm hacked foreign govts, activists: analysts
February 22, 2024 - The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private contractor that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes.
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Infosecurity Magazine
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I-Soon Leak: What Cyber Experts Learned About Chinese Cyber Espionage - Infosecurity Magazine
February 27, 2024 - The I-S00N repository included 577 files in four different formats (txt, logs, md, and png), representing around 170MGB of data. Some appear to be dated as recently as 2022. Among the files uploaded were dozens of marketing documents, business ...
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HarfangLab
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A comprehensive analysis of I-Soon's commercial offering - HarfangLab
March 4, 2025 - On February 16, 2024, an anonymous user posted a large number of internal documents pertaining to a Chinese cybersecurity company named I-Soon on GitHub (repository now taken down).
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Internet 2.0
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i-SOON Leak - Internet 2.0
July 4, 2024 - Key details on the links, capabilites ... company i-SOON ... On February 19, 2024, a leaker posted a meticulously curated trove of documents on GitHub from Sichuan Anxun Information Technology Co., Ltd....