The highly secretive Five Eyes alliance has disrupted a China-backed hacker group – in an unusually public manner

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Title	The highly secretive Five Eyes alliance has disrupted a China-backed hacker group – in an unusually public manner
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.m5fnc794f
Authors	Desmond, Dennis
Abstract	The Five Eyes alliance is critical to hunting and detecting foreign cyber actors, but tends to work in secret.

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Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
United States	6	19%
Australia	5	16%
Canada	1	3%
Zimbabwe	1	3%
France	1	3%
United Kingdom	1	3%
New Zealand	1	3%
Russia	1	3%
Colombia	1	3%
Other	1	3%
Unknown	13	41%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	27	84%
Scientists	4	13%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	1	3%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2025.

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#155,973

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