We got our hand on a Chinese DLP program the government and national security agencies use to monitor state employees computers for leakage and usage of confidential documents. Meet 保密管理系统. 1/9

Why do so little internal documents leak from China, compared to its sizable digital administrative infrastructure ? NetAskari got their hands on an internal document monitoring and control software for government workstations: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

As the year is coming to an end, here are our picks of the five best stories on netaskari.online . If you have some time over the holidays, please check them out: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

An example of an HikVision powered neighborhood surveillance and access-control system, that you can find all across China's cities. In the past often stand-alone, they are increasingly getting integrated into the nation wide "Sharp eyes" ( 雪亮 ) project.

Read our primer on how the big-data analysis system operated by the Chinese police can track people across country, via having almost real time access to their means of travel, bank account activities, phone calls and online activity. netaskari.substack.com/p/smart-poli...

Welcome to PART 2 of NetAskari’s analysis of “Expedition Cloud”, a Cyber Range operated by the Ministry of Public Security of China to improve their offensive cyber capabilities : open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

China’s hacking training grounds, gunning or foreign nations’ critical infrastructure: tinyurl.com/y67z79ve

Internal documents from a Chinese cyber security company reveal how the Ministry of Public Security is commissioning “cyber ranges” to explore attack methods against adversaries digital critical infrastructure: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

China created its digital surveillance state with the eager help of US’s BigTech, Dake Kang reports: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

More comprehensive take on the KnownSec data leak: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

Some first thoughts on the KnownSec databreach : open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

A new comcept for a locked down DNS for China, will strengthen the country’s digital censorship: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

We interviewed Benjamin Mixon-Baca on his reaearch on Free VPNs, who is behind them and their links to Chinese cyber security companies and ex-PLA members. substack.com/@netaskari/n...

A patent shows how China’s security services keep tabs on citizens mobile devices combining WiFi-probes and big-data collusion : open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

Episode 2 of NetAskari’s podcast just dropped : The Locknet - substack.com/home/post/p-...

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

Xinjiang 912: The evolution of the Great Firewall forged in one of the world’s most surveilled and controlled regions. open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

We took a stroll among the less sexy “study” documents of MESA Lab but still found some interesting little nuggets on the future of China’s cyber strategy and developments : open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

Federal agencies are racing to contain a new wave of sophisticated hacking by suspected Chinese attackers that took advantage of previously undiscovered flaws in widely used security software from networking company Cisco.

Selling China's Great Firewall to the world: a series of unprecedented data and document leaks lift the curtain on China's global surveillance and censorship business ( built with the help of some western big tech players too ). open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

We did a little bit of an analysis of a leaked project mindmap that according to us, reveals some internals of a Chinese network range, operated by the Ministry of Public Security.

Not sure how reliable the numbers are as we have very scarce data on China, where the private-public cyber security sector is booming too.

'Dark DNA' may explain dancing spiders' extraordinary diversity

Many in Silicon Valley call China a threat to freedom, but an AP investigation finds U.S. companies designed technology for China used to spy on and detain hundreds of thousands of people. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

A massive data set reveals the Chinese company that sales powerful and sweeping online surveillance systems to regimes around the globe: www.wired.com/story/geedge...

Check out the report here: tinyurl.com/mvxstdee

China’s global data raiders : PART 2 of our analysis of “Hawk Eye”. substack.com/@netaskari/n...

Trump says 11 killed in US strike on drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela

Even Bali is seeing serious rioting, with 2 injured and 138 detained up to now. The whole of Indonesia is aflame, and Prabowo has had to cancel his attendance in China's parade. This is big stuff, but as usual Indonesia flies under the Western media's radar. www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/202...

NetAskari uncovered a draft document on a server belonging to the Ministry of State Security in China, outlining a giant mass-data surveillance framework with offensive attack capabilities. Meet "Hawk Eye": open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

“The Taliban forcibly took over our joint venture oil fields and unreasonably drove our Chinese personnel out of the oil field at gunpoint.” www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...

the specific type of murder-focused "true crime" is mostly corrosive but I think crime books as a genre are important because a really good crime book is about money, power, class, poverty and so forth. they're the social realist novels of non-fiction, ideally.

Donald Trump berated NBC and ABC as “two of the worst and most biased networks in history,” adding he’d support the FCC in revoking licenses to their television stations.

Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching @uoregon.bsky.social

New: the inside story of how Tea collected millions of women's secrets, then exposed them to the world. We've found Tea raided women safety groups to get users; paid influencers to undermine others, much more. The “motive is money, not actually to protect people.” www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Ongoing debate about China's #RSDL system for disappearances into secret locations is a good reason to learn about the reality inside. Our graphics-heavy report, #LockedUp, does just that. Come for the fantastic artwork, leave knowing the reality. safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/new-...

A leaked set of data gives fresh insights into how LLM censorship is conducted in China. Come with us on an investigation to get new insights into structures, methods and approaches of getting even Children's toys to adhere to a strict and coherent censorship regime open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

The Zambian government sought to calm public concerns about pollution levels after a study found that the damage done by a disaster at a Chinese state-owned copper mine was much larger than officially reported

Louisiana going the full Xinjiang

This is the deal Trump and Putin started to publicly negotiate during the last round of "Ukraine peace talks."

The EU wants to ram through “Chat control” once again: deepnewz.com/europe/eu-sc...

We're probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change social media's core dynamics.

Great summary and compilation of the “Kimsuky” VPS/VM leak and what we know so far by @yindave.bsky.social : www.nknews.org/share/75a6dce3

Kimsuky or not Kimsuky ? A leak of data from a VM and a VPS reveals operations of an APT that was first attributed to North Korea, but might be actually a Chinese operation. substack.com/@netaskari/n...

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

How do Chinese public insitutons react after a cyber security incident ? We found an AI training set that gives us some good details. Organisations, process and timelines. open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

“When individuals prioritize belonging over critical thinking, they become susceptible to manipulation. They trade their intellectual independence for the perceived security of the group.”https://open.substack.com/pub/philosopheasy/p/dietrich-bonhoeffers-terrifying-theory?r=pnmmu&utm_medium=ios

China’s global “digital drive-by” : open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...

Russia is promoting a government-controlled super app intended to replace everything from WhatsApp to YouTube.

NetAskari has an anonymous “dead drop” now. If you have information, leaks or want to reach out without exposing yourself go to: deaddrop.netaskari.online .