Russia is not the only country accused of espionage and the use of social networks for espionage. Charges have recently been brought against the Asian giant, China, where the state has been accused of using the LinkedIn social networking site for this purpose.
According to press reports quoting a security report of the German intelligence agency, the Chinese authorities are using the social networking site "LinkedIn" in spying operations on German interests, especially commercial and industrial ones. The report, which lasted nine months, concluded that more than 10,000 German citizens, In the country or diplomats targeted this campaign.
As always, according to the German security report, Chinese intelligence uses fake accounts of people who are not real through the social networking site, Linked to, in order to link relations with the characters of the budget and try to penetrate German institutions and agencies in order to collect different and sensitive information.