The rules will govern how companies and other entities handle large quantities of personal user information, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said

"The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology — whatever it is that makes your industry tick—and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market," says the FBI.

The call by Democratic senator Mark Warner and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio followed a Buzzfeed report saying TikTok staff in China could access private data of US users

Hacker offering to sell the more than 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, equivalent to about $200,000.

CAC said it had amassed a fraud database of 3.8 million websites and 500,000 apps. It did not specify if any are still operating or elaborate on any penalties issued

Companies that collect personal data will be responsible for assessing if it needs to be protected when it is transferred overseas, under new rules drafted by the China's government regulator

Beijing spymasters recruited the English-language graduates on behalf of APT40, which snoops on US, Canadian, European, Israeli and Arab agencies, companies and universities

China's public security ministry said its cyber division would identify and remove social media accounts and posts that disrupt social harmony

Providers must not use apps to conduct activities that endanger national security, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said

``To kick them out, we must understand the tradecraft and detect them beyond just initial access,'' tweeted a National Security Agency official.

Western financial firms have been warned that China's new cybersecurity rules could pose 'significant systemic risks' to their operations

"We refute the popular narrative of one 'attacker' or 'hacker' working to destabilise UST," Nansen's principal research analyst Aurélie Barthère and colleagues said in the report.