Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned in a bulletin that China's military intelligence services are using Western online job platforms - including LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork - to lure Five Eyes nationals with access to sensitive information.
"These actors use an aggressive online recruitment strategy whereby intelligence officers or their affiliates pose as employees of private consultancies, think tanks, or human resources (HR) firms, and place online job advertisements for foreign policy and defense analysts (or similar)," the group said.
Those being targeted include "persons with either indirect or peripheral access to government information, e.g. academics, journalists, freelance writers, think tank employees, or anyone with links to defense, security, policy, and economic sectors," it added.
The Five Eyes countries consist of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States.