Airbus has entered into an agreement to acquire Quarkslab, a French cybersecurity company founded in 2011 with approximately 100 employees. The transaction is part of Airbus' broader strategy to build sovereign cybersecurity capabilities across Europe.
Motivated by profit, this network of private companies and contractors in China cast a wide net to identify vulnerable computers, exploit those computers, and then identify information that it could sell directly or indirectly to the PRC government.