China is using online job platforms and professional networking sites as part of its espionage efforts against the U.S. and its allies, a security bulletin from the Five Eyes warned.
"These actors use an aggressive online recruitment strategy whereby intelligence officers or their affiliates pose as employees of private consultancies, think tanks or human resources (HR) firms, and place online job advertisements for foreign policy and defense analysts (or similar)," reads a passage of the bulletin from the organization, which includes the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
