Taiwan charges two businessmen over alleged role in Chinese espionage campaign

Taiwanese authorities charged two businessmen for leasing LINE accounts to operators linked to China’s cyber forces; those accounts were used to impersonate journalists and build trust with targets before delivering malware disguised as secure messaging software. The campaign targeted politicians, academics, journalists and civil-society groups, and aligns with prior reporting by ICIJ and The Citizen Lab documenting a broad Beijing-linked phishing campaign using many malicious domains and credential-theft techniques.