A member of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) honour guard holds a Chinese national flag during an open day of Stonecutters Island naval base, in Hong Kong. (Reuters)
A Chinese hacking group that has been using tools linked with the National Security Agency might have obtained at least one without breaching NSA systems.
Symantec has evidence that Chinese-linked hackers were using NSA-authored tools at least a year before they were publicly leaked by the Shadow Brokers.