In recent years, foreign espionage and intelligence agencies have used workplace dating software to build "sources" in key industries and fields on the mainland, in an attempt to obtain key sensitive information such as industry policies and scientific research progress, and even classified information.
Why Workplace Dating Software Is "Favored" by Foreign Spy and Intelligence Agencies
Compared with traditional social software, workplace dating software naturally has the characteristics of portraying user portraits, and the registration of such software usually uses the user's real information, including name, contact information, and employment experience. In addition, this type of software will establish relevant communities and circles based on user information to help users expand their network, such as colleagues, classmates, peers, etc.
Overseas espionage and intelligence agencies have aimed at the characteristics of workplace dating software that is easy to screen practitioners in specific fields and easy to break into relevant circles to obtain information, and have extended their claws into it to attract talents in key areas who are plotting against us.
How foreign espionage and intelligence agencies use workplace dating software to carry out co-optation and counter-instigation activities
In recent years, in the course of investigating and handling cases, the state security organs have discovered that foreign espionage and intelligence agencies have used the identity of a certain industry practitioner as a cover, and under the pretext of "understanding industry policies", "scientific research and discussion", and "consultation on important projects", they have co-opted the staff of key units such as science and technology and energy in an attempt to obtain information on the progress of China's important projects and even core secrets.
"Hello, I'm xx, I have also worked in an industry, and I would like to ask you some questions." Through this friend application, overseas espionage and intelligence agencies have started a new round of candidate search.
According to the situation of the target industry, it carefully creates the so-called "excellent workplace personality" in the workplace dating software to arouse the interest of the target;
After contacting the target, use the other party's psychology of trying to expand contacts and seek career development to establish contact, starting from the exchange of industry information to reduce the awareness of target prevention;
After the relationship between the two parties warms up, invite the other party to leave their daily contact information, expand the scope of communication, and develop into a "friend" relationship;
In the course of exchanges, foreign espionage and intelligence agencies mainly provide "emotional value" to their targets through methods such as greeting them for warmth and emotional solicitation, and convey benefits by giving gifts during festivals, inviting guests to dinner, etc., and eventually pushing the relationship between the two parties to the level of "close friends", and beginning to solicit sensitive or confidential information, and carry out their acts of espionage and stealing secrets.
Reminder from the state security organs
In the process of using workplace dating software, relevant personnel should be vigilant against the above-mentioned "routines", protect personal privacy and industry-sensitive data, hide sensitive content when filling in relevant information, and once they detect that the other party shows a tendency to fake dating, or asks for sensitive or even confidential information, they must promptly express their refusal and keep a distance from the other party.
According to the "Counter-espionage Law of the People's Republic of China", state organs, people's organizations, enterprises, public institutions, and other social organizations bear the main responsibility for their unit's counter-espionage security prevention work, implement counter-espionage security precautions, educate their own units on safeguarding national security, and mobilize and organize their own units to prevent and stop espionage acts. Any citizen or organization discovering acts of espionage shall promptly report it to the state security organs.
If it is discovered that personnel of foreign espionage and intelligence organs are carrying out suspicious situations endangering national security such as collusion or theft of secrets through the Internet, they may report through the 12339 national security organ reporting hotline, the online reporting platform (www.12339.gov.cn), the Ministry of State Security's WeChat official account, or directly to the local state security organs.
Source: People's Daily Online