Wednesday, July 8, 2026

NZSIS warns of Chinese recruitment attempts targeting Kiwis

NZSIS and Chines recruitment

The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) says several New Zealanders have unknowingly come close to providing sensitive information to Chinese military intelligence operatives posing as recruiters on professional networking sites.

SIS Director-General Andrew Hampton told state-funded media investigations over recent years identified cases where individuals were allegedly drawn into schemes offering paid research roles before being pressured to provide non-public government, defence or security-related information.

A joint warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance said Chinese operatives use fake consultancy, think tank and recruitment firms to target people with access to sensitive information, often offering substantial payments and shifting communications to encrypted platforms.



The SIS said it had prevented classified information from being disclosed in the cases it investigated and urged anyone with access to sensitive material to be cautious about online approaches and the information they share publicly.

Image credit: Chris Yang

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Maybe the Chinese pay better….
    Maybe the GRI should have kept-up with hyperinflation…
    Maybe the Youth Rate should have kept up as well…
    Maybe there are no jobs no thanks to Jabby and the Covid co-conspirators!
    After all, a lot of America’s Top Gun Pilots went to China after they were forced out of the U.S. Military, or experienced blacklisting, disenfranchisement, marginalisation, harassment, targeting and general fuckery while in the U.S…
    And then, they are charged with ‘cooperating with the enemy’ even though no formal Declaration of War exists between China and the U.S…
    But. it will soon when Israel becomes desperate and demands more proxy wars that will terminate the human race while the J3w$ and their Zionist Shabbos Goy ilk live in underground bunkers…
    https://rumble.com/v7amcxe-shannon-joy-billionaires-bugout-video-720p.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v3_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_upp_a

  2. Lilliputian New Zealand’s absurd over statement of its importance on the world stage. What could they possibly find out? That New Zealand is most likely largely mismanaged, by self serving globalist idiots, and incompetents? That most of them probably have their noses up the US and UK’s cat flap? What a revelation that must be! Well worth the alleged spying revenue!

  3. NZSIS are not your friend. They exist to protect the corporation, not New Zealanders. Their threat detection is you and me. Just saying.

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