The Sun
CHINA spies “can listen to any mobile phone call in the UK,” as eavesdropping fears are growing.
Agents are able to intercept satellite and cable communications remotely, gaining access to phone conversations, it is feared.
A former military intelligence officer told the Mirror China is able to listen to non-encrypted calls between the UK military and government officials.
He said: “China has a very sophisticated capability when it comes to phone intercepts.
“Military can assume their calls, if they aren’t encrypted, can be intercepted and no matter how innocent the calls may seem, they could be of value.
“Meeting timings, names of other callers, dates, times and places, everything when fed into the general intelligence picture can be cross referenced to gain valuable information.
“And that means you can assume the same can be said of any member of the public.”
It comes after the MoD’s defence academy’s major cyber attack last week.
The tri-service college in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire was hit by a hack that knocked out the IT network and stopped the website from working.
Staff was told the hack was by a foreign power, making Russia and China suspects.
A source revealed: “They said it’s the work of a foreign power.
“Everyone was told to use their personal laptops and computers because the work ones have been compromised.
“It is going to take at least five weeks to fix.”
