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Hainan State Security Department
The Hainan State Security Department (HSSD; ) is a provincial department of the Chinese Ministry of State Security responsible for national security and secret policing in the contiguous island province of Hainan, headquartered in Haikou. Members of the Hainan SSD have badge numbers with prefixes beginning with "46xxxx". The HSSD operates advanced persistent threat (APT) number 40. Advanced persistent threat actor The Hainan State Security Department is behind the advanced persistent threat known as APT40. In May 2021, a US federal grand jury in San Diego, California, returned an indictment against four hackers of the Hainan SSD for hacking attributed to the Hainan Xiandun Technology Development Co., Ltd. (海南仙盾) (Hainan Xiandun), a since disbanded front company, to operate out of Haikou, Hainan Province. The two-count indictment alleged that Ding Xiaoyang (), Cheng Qingmin () and Zhu Yunmin (), were HSSD officers responsible for coordinating, facilitating and managi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hainan Province
Hainan is an island province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally means "South of the Sea". The province has a land area of , of which Hainan Island is and the rest is over 200 islands scattered across three archipelagos: Zhongsha, Xisha and Nansha. It was part of Guangdong from 1950 to 1988, after which it was made a province of its own and was designated as a special economic zone by Deng Xiaoping, as part of the Chinese economic reform program. The Han Chinese population, who compose a majority of the population at 82%, speak a wide variety of languages including Standard Chinese, Hainam Min, Yue Chinese, Cantonese, Hakka Chinese, etc. Indigenous peoples such as the Hlai, a Kra–Dai-speaking ethnic group, are native to the island and compose 15% of the population. Their native languages include the Hlai languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom. The office was created on 2 September 2020 through the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID). The FCO was itself created in 1968 by the merger of the Foreign Office (FO) and the Commonwealth Office. The department in its various forms is responsible for representing and promoting British interests worldwide. The head of the FCDO is the secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, commonly abbreviated to "foreign secretary". This is regarded as one of the four most prestigious positions in the Cabinet – the Great Offices of State – alongside those of Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary. David Lammy was appointed Foreign Secretary on 5 July 2024 following the 2024 general election. The FCDO is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
