I-Soon (上海安洵) is a Shanghai based Chinese info-sec company that contracts for many Chinese government agencies like the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of State Security, and People’s Liberation Army. A trove of documents and chat messages between employees was leaked on GitHub on 16 February showing inner workings of the company, targeted organizations and fees earned from hacking them (Apparently collecting data from the Vietnam Ministry of Economy was worth $55 000 and access to a Vietnamese traffic police private website was worth $15 000), technical documents showing custom snooping devices, people complaining about low wages, and a discussion about receiving zero-day vulnerabilities from the Chinese government.
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