ZRON Report Ties AI Dashboard to Stolen Government Data
The documents show the business model moving from selling raw stolen data to selling the analytical layer, which makes the take more usable for the agencies buying it.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
Internal documents show ZRON, a China-based cybersecurity company, providing stolen foreign government data to Chinese security agencies, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The materials include Russian diplomatic documents, plans for a foreign head of state's visit to the Philippines, and minutes from a meeting at the Pakistani Prime Minister's residence. ZRON built a dashboard that uses AI to integrate, classify, and analyze data, and slide materials describe tools for screen monitoring, keystroke logging, and iOS data access.
The leaked materials are not only stolen files. Chat logs show ZRON sales representatives communicating with customers across northeastern, eastern, and southern China, with customers identified by codenames though police organizations are sometimes named. Slide materials advertise access to public information from social media and traditional media plus private data from Asia-based telecommunications carriers. Dakota Cary, a China analyst at SentinelOne who viewed some of the data, said selling analysis on large data sets is a logical product. The Wall Street Journal said calls and texts to ZRON phone numbers went unanswered, and a comment request to a registered email address returned an error.
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