In one case a shipbuilding expert at a well-known university received an email with a Trojan program embedded in it, ministry says
China’s top spy agency said foreign agents had sent Chinese military research institutes fake job applications in emails with a Trojan program embedded in them.
The academic, surnamed Yang, described it as a “vague” application to be his research assistant. He asked the student to send a resume, and soon after received a reply with an encrypted Word document titled “Resume” that required a password to open, which was provided in the email.
Yang downloaded and opened the resume but became suspicious when he realised Wang was not a current university student and that his major was not related to Yang’s research field. He asked further questions and the person said they were specifically interested in “vessels and maritime equipment”.
Yang then reported the email to the university’s security department and notified state security authorities.
