Overview

• Newsweek summarized a leak first reported by Tom's Hardware that includes more than 500GB of source code and internal documents.
• The materials describe Geedge Networks’ Tiangou secure gateway as a deployable system for filtering traffic, detecting VPNs, and targeting specific users.
• Countries named as recipients include Pakistan, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan.
• According to the leak, Myanmar’s state telecom monitored up to 81 million connections, and Pakistan’s telecom authority conducted real-time blanket surveillance of mobile networks.
• Newsweek said it asked Geedge and the Chinese Embassy in Washington for comment, and Geedge’s website markets Tiangou as a “one-stop” perimeter security solution for data centers and ISP backbones.