A Chinese telecommunications company considered a threat to U.S. national security was linked to an elite Chinese military cyberwarfare group, according to a House committee report made public Monday.
Information, including email messages, supplied to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence reveals that the People’s Liberation Army cyberwarfare unit had sought research and development assistance from Huawei Technologies, a huge Chinese telecommunications firm that has been under fire for several years over its links to the Chinese military and intelligence services, as well as its illicit trade and business practices.
The bipartisan House report, based on both classified and public information, concluded that the U.S. government and private sector face cyber espionage or data theft from software or hardware sold by Huawei or another government-linked telecommunications firm, Zhongxing Telecommunications, known as ZTE.
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