{"id":1040249,"date":"2026-10-02T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040249"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:20:57","slug":"chinese-hackers-impersonated-ex-us-official-to-steal-emails-from-ai-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/chinese-hackers-impersonated-ex-us-official-to-steal-emails-from-ai-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers impersonated ex-US official to steal emails from AI experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese hackers have been impersonating US AI experts, including a former government official, to try to steal emails from experts in AI at think tanks, universities, and other organizations, the cybersecurity company Proofpoint said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>In a report, Proofpoint said that it had watched the hackers &#8211; which it dubs &#8220;TA419&#8221; &#8211; regularly try to steal passwords from people working for US or Japanese think tanks, defense contractors, universities, and law firms since as far back as 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese hackers have been impersonating US AI experts, including a former government official, to try to steal emails from experts in AI at think tanks, universities, and other organizations, the cybersecurity company Proofpoint said on Thursday. In a report, Proofpoint said that it had watched the hackers &#8211; which it dubs &#8220;TA419&#8221; &#8211; regularly try to steal passwords from people working for US or Japanese think tanks, defense contractors, universities, and law firms since as far back as 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040276,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040249\/revisions\/1040276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}