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posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 31 2018, @03:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the well-it-would,-wouldn't-it? dept.

The Verge writes about a report from Le Monde that China appears to have been caught spying on the African Union via their computers and even their actual building.

The African Union, a coalition of 55 countries established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has reportedly been a victim of state-sponsored espionage after an investigation from French newspaper Le Monde revealed China was using the computers in a new building's IT division to spy on its continental neighbors.

China was able to do this because it financed and built the new building itself to act as the African Union's new headquarters and gifted [sic] it under false pretenses of cordial partnership, Le Monde reports. The spying has reportedly been happening since 2012 when the building opened in downtown Addis Ababa. The backdoor into the African Union's computer systems was first discovered in January 2017, when engineers in the IT division noticed an unusual spike of activity late into the evening when the building was no longer staffed.

Source : China denies claims it built backdoors into African Union's headquarters for spying


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