Suspected Chinese intelligence-linked actors used fake consulting websites, job platforms, artificial intelligence-generated photos, stolen identities, encrypted messaging, and overseas payments to target Americans with security clearances, according to a newly public FBI affidavit.
The redacted filing, identified by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as for case 26-sz-42, gives the most detailed public account so far of the alleged recruitment network behind the Justice Department’s June seizure of 13 internet domains.
