Singapore-registered firm used fake employees and recruitment methods mirroring foreign intelligence playbook

The company, called Infoassa, had advertised at least six events at its premises over the last four months. Checks by CNA found that the most recent event on Aug 7 never took place. CNA also identified four online personas claiming to be employees of, or affiliated with, Infoassa. Experts told CNA that the apparent unsophistication of such efforts is rarely of concern to the operators behind them. “It’s a low-cost, set-and-forget kind of system that is easily discardable,” said Assoc Prof Dylan Loh from NTU’s Public Policy and Global Affairs programme, who added that AI has made it easier to create such front organisations en masse. “There are certainly more sophisticated ways of intelligence-gathering, but those require more resources and manpower.”

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