Censorship as a Service | Leak Reveals Public-Private Collaboration to Monitor Chinese Cyberspace

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Feed Name: SentinelLabs - We are hunters, reversers, exploit developers, and tinkerers shedding light on the world of malware, exploits, APTs, and cybercrime across all platforms.

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Date Published: 2025-02-21

Date Updated: 2026-07-27

Author: Alex Delamotte, Aleksandar Milenkoski & Dakota Cary

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SentinelLABS analyzed a substantial data leak from TopSec (北京天融) containing extensive work logs, DevOps scripts, and infrastructure configurations that reveal web content monitoring capabilities (sensitive-word detection, website probes), hardcoded credentials and privileged container deployments, and evidence TopSec provided bespoke monitoring support to state entities during a September 2023 corruption investigation in Shanghai.

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