A Leak Spilled a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and Targets

Meanwhile, Google moved this week to sue 25 people that it alleges are behind a “staggering” and “relentless” scam text operation that uses a notorious phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse.

WIRED reported this week that the US Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist—and then, crucially, kept the records for months in violation of domestic espionage rules.

And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.

China’s massive intelligence apparatus has never quite had its Edward Snowden moment. So any peak inside its surveillance and hacking capabilities represents a rare find. One such glimpse has now arrived in the form of about 12,000 documents leaked from the ...