China has urged the US to stop "listening in, monitoring, stealing secrets and internet hacking against China and other countries", according to foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, following the dumping of the Vault 7 documents by WikiLeaks. The organisation claimed the CIA turned a wide range of connected devices – including those made by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE – into covert microphones, and developed cyber weapons such as malware control systems, 2015 exploits and trojans, among others. In zero-day, China and the US agreed not to conduct or support cyber theft.
China has urged the US to stop "listening in, monitoring, stealing secrets and internet hacking against China and other countries", according to foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, following the dumping of the Vault 7 documents by WikiLeaks. The organisation claimed the CIA turned a wide range of connected devices – including those made by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE – into covert microphones, and developed cyber weapons such as malware control systems, zero-day exploits and trojans, among others. In 2015, China and the US agreed not to conduct or support cyber theft.