「007」のイギリスに中国が仕掛ける古典的スパイ術 外国人が頻繁に利用するホテルには盗聴網設置済みを示唆 MI5が自国ビジネスマンに警告

相手が、よりによって
　「007」のイギリス
だから、じわじわ来るニュース。共同より。

「贈り物にスパイウエア」　中国の情報担当者が英国のビジネスマンに　ＭＩ５が警戒促す
2010.2.1 09:32

　英情報局保安部（ＭＩ５）は、中国の非公然の情報担当者がコンピューター情報を盗むスパイウエアを忍ばせたデジタルカメラや電子機器を英国のビジネスマンに贈り、企業秘密を得ているなどとして、警戒を促す文書を作成した。１月３１日付サンデー・タイムズ紙が報じた。
　「中国スパイの脅威」と題する文書によると、中国の人民解放軍や公安省の担当者は貿易フェアや見本市などの際、これら「贈り物」などを伴って接近。英国の防衛、エネルギー、通信などの企業がスパイ活動の標的になっているという。
　またＭＩ５は「北京や上海のホテルの部屋は情報収集機器が取り付けられている可能性がある。客の留守中に捜索されたこともある」などと指摘している。（共同）

元記事は結構な長さ。

January 31, 2010
China bugs and burgles Britain

David Leppard
THE security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business executives and setting up “honeytraps” in a bid to blackmail them into betraying sensitive commercial secrets.

A leaked MI5 document says that undercover intelligence officers from the People’s Liberation Army and the Ministry of Public Security have also approached UK businessmen at trade fairs and exhibitions with the offer of “gifts” and “lavish hospitality”.

The gifts — cameras and memory sticks — have been found to contain electronic Trojan bugs which provide the Chinese with remote access to users’ computers.

MI5 says the Chinese government “represents one of the most significant espionage threats to the UK” because of its use of these methods, as well as widespread electronic hacking.

Written by MI5’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, the 14-page “restricted” report describes how China has attacked UK defence, energy, communications and manufacturing companies in a concerted hacking campaign.

It claims China has also gone much further, targeting the computer networks and email accounts of public relations companies and international law firms. “Any UK company might be at risk if it holds information which would benefit the Chinese,” the report says.

The explicit nature of the MI5 warning is likely to strain diplomatic ties between London and Beijing. Relations between the two countries were damaged last month after China’s decision to execute a mentally ill British man for alleged drug trafficking.

Earlier this month the United States demanded that China investigate a sophisticated hacking attack on Google and a further 30 American companies from Chinese soil.

China has occasionally attempted sexual entrapment to target senior British political figures. Two years ago an aide to Gordon Brown had his BlackBerry phone stolen after being picked up by a Chinese woman who had approached him in a Shanghai hotel disco.

The report says the practice has now extended to commercial espionage. It says Chinese agents are trying to cultivate “long-term relationships” with the employees of key British companies: “An undercover intelligence officer may try to develop a friendship or business relationship, often using lavish hospitality and flattery.

“Chinese intelligence services have also been known to exploit vulnerabilities such as sexual relationships and illegal activities to pressurise individuals to co-operate with them.”

The warning to British businessmen adds: “Hotel rooms in major Chinese cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, which are frequented by foreigners, are likely to be bugged ... hotel rooms have been searched while the occupants are out of the room.”

It warns that British executives are being targeted in China and in other countries. “During conferences or visits to Chinese companies you may be given gifts such as USB devices or cameras. There have been cases where these ‘gifts’ have contained Trojan devices and other types of malware.”

China has repeatedly denied spying on Britain and the West. Its London embassy did not comment.

In 2007 Jonathan Evans, the director-general of MI5, had written privately to 300 chief executives of banks and other businesses warning them that their IT systems were under attack from “Chinese state organisations”.

There have been unconfirmed reports that China has tried to hack into computers belonging to the Foreign Office, nine other Whitehall departments and parliament.

Last year a report by Whitehall’s joint intelligence committee said China may be capable of shutting down critical services such as power, food and water supplies. But the latest document is the most comprehensive and explicit warning to be issued by the UK authorities on the new threat. Entitled The Threat from Chinese Espionage, it was circulated to hundreds of City and business leaders last year.

The growing threat from China has led Evans to complain that his agency is being forced to divert manpower and resources away from the fight against Al-Qaeda. His lobbying helped to prompt the Cabinet Office to set up the Office of Cyber Security, which will be launched in March.

共同の記事だと
　北京や上海のホテルの部屋は情報収集機器が取り付けられている可能性がある。
と控えめな表現だけど、元記事はちゃんと
　Hotel rooms in major Chinese cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, which are frequented by foreigners, are likely to be bugged.
すなわち、
　北京や上海など中国の大都市にある、外国人が頻繁に利用するホテルは、盗聴されている可能性がある。
と
　外国人が宿泊するホテルにはスパイ網が敷かれている可能性を示唆
している。

いままで
　ハニートラップ
といえば政府関係者に仕掛けるのが一般的だったけど、上記記事によると
　最近はビジネスマンにも仕掛けるので注意しろ
とMI5は呼びかけている。ま〜、日本では
　官民ともにハニトラの嵐
に遭っているから、今更という感じは否めない。

外国人が宿泊するホテルが監視対象になっている、というのは、これまた頻繁に中国と行き来する日本人の間では常識だろう。

だいたい、
　女性を部屋に連れ込んだら、公安が絶妙のタイミングで踏み込む
という
　中国ハニトラの伝統芸
を考えると、当然の話。

ま、
　中国で「イイ思い」をしたい
と思っている人達は、少々気をつけた方がよい。

しかし、イギリス人も、中国人からデジカメやメモリなんて、ほいほい貰うなよ。アヤシイに決まってるじゃん。

ところで、盗聴と言えば、モスクワに行った田中角栄が、盗聴されているとアドバイスされて、それを逆手に取り、
　皿が欠けてる
とか
　シャワーがダメだ
とか叫ぶと、翌朝直って一層の待遇改善が図られたとかいう話を聞いたが、一般人が上海や北京のホテルで叫んでも、何も起きないだろうなあ。