China's Secret Cyber Contest

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Did a Chinese University Hacking Competition Target a Real Victim?

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Security conference in China may have used contest to get participants to collect intelligence from unknown target.

Participants were prohibited from discussing the nature of the tasks they were asked to do in the competition with anyone; they had to agree not to destroy or disrupt the targeted system.

Participants also had to delete any backdoors they planted on the system and any data they acquired from it.

The contest was hosted by Northwestern Polytechnical University , a science and engineering university in Xi'an , Shaanxi .

China began to focus on developing its cyber talent in 2015 after Edward Snowden leaks exposed extensive hacking operations conducted by the US National Security Agency for intelligence purposes.

Since 2014 , more than 540 capture-the-flag rounds of competition have occurred in China , researchers say.

China has one of the most robust hacking contest ecosystems in the world, they say, including sector-specific ones for health care and law enforcement.

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