A security ministry overseeing intelligence, policing and internal security, facing scrutiny over overseas links and cyber operations in the current week.
MI5 has publicly warned that the China General Technology Research Institute funds research that improves the Chinese MSS’s espionage capabilities. More than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed to CGTRI-funded projects in AI, cybersecurity, covert communications and steganography, with prosecution possible under the 2023 National Security Act.
The Justice Department has seized web domains linked to two hacking platforms, QScan and QTRouter, that prosecutors say a China-linked group called QTFY used since at least 2018 to probe and, in some cases, breach US agencies and private firms including DOE labs, NIH, NASA and the Federal Reserve.