AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - Exclusive: Suspected Chinese hackers impersonate U.S. briefings in phishing lure
A suspected China-based hacking group spun up a phishing campaign around Christmas that mimicked U.S. policy briefings in an attempt to hack diplomats, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Dream Security shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The campaign successfully infected "a lot of people," Dream CEO Shalev Hulio said in an interview. "We just don't know who and how big [of a] scale," he added. Zoom in: Researchers at Israel-based Dream uncovered a phishing campaign designed to ensnare officials tied to diplomacy, elections and international coordination around the world. - Between late December and mid-January, China-based hackers sent emails with files that pretended to be official U.S. diplomatic summaries or…