Cybersecurity firm FireEye says the hackers targeted phone details of 'foreign high-ranking individuals of interest to the Chinese intelligence services.'
A Chinese state-backed hacking group broke into the servers of telecommunications firms to steal text messages and phone records, a FireEye report revealed.
Once in, the malware would search the contents of text messages for keywords of "geopolitical interest to Chinese intelligence collection." It would also search for specific phone numbers of certain people from a database that the hackers had and were targeting. If a text message contained either the targeted phone number or a keyword, it would be saved and later stolen by the hackers.FireEye said it discovered instances of APT41 accessing records of call details which include a high-level overview of phone calls between individuals, such as time, duration and numbers. Those records targeted related to "foreign high-ranking individuals of interest to the Chinese intelligence services.
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