Chinese Spyware Code ‘Jian’ Was Copied From America's National Security Agency, Researchers Say


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Apple Lends Manufacturing Help as Nasal Swab Maker COPAN Diagnostics Ships 15 Million Kits 3 hours ago Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of China-linked malware it dubs “Jian” were so similar they could only have been stolen from some of the National Security Agency break-in tools leaked to the internet in 2017. Yaniv Balmas, Checkpoint’s head of research, called Jian “kind of a copycat, a Chinese replica.” The find comes as some experts argue that American spies should devote more energy to fixing the flaws they find in software...