China, an authoritarian regime under one-party rule, is flexing its cyberespionage prowess to meddle in the elections of democratic nations.
Monovithya Kem, a Cambodian political activist living in the United States, alerted U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye, after she realized that an email she received—purportedly from a human-rights group expressing sympathy for her father’s jailing in Cambodia—was sent from a free account, according to an Aug. 18 report by Japanese newspaper Nikkei.
