Chinese Nationals Charged in State-Sponsored Hacking Scheme
Staff and professors at multiple Chinese universities helped recruit hackers and linguists to steal from targeted computer networks, including their peers at foreign universities.
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SAN DIEGO (CN) According to an indictment unsealed Monday, four Chinese nationals working for a state security department were charged in the Southern District of California on charges of hacking computer systems in industries of significant economic benefit to China to steal intellectual property and avoid lengthy, expensive research and development processes.
According to the newly unsealed 30-page federal grand jury indictment, Ding Xiaoyang, Cheng Qingmin, Zhu Yunmin and Wu Shurong engaged in a yearslong conspiracy between 2011 and 2018. During this time, they worked for a front company created by the Hainan Province Ministry of State Security, a foreign intelligence arm of the Peopl
US, with allies including New Zealand, finally accuses China publicly of massive global hack Tuesday, July 20, 2021 IWK Bureau
US President Joe Biden s administration finally came out publicly on Monday against China s involvement in cybercrimes accusing it of running a massive global operation of state-sponsored activities causing billions of dollars of losses to victims.
In a show of solidarity indicating the serious global repercussions, all the 30 NATO allies and the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan joined in indicting Beijing.
The US Justice Department charged three Chinese officials of running the hacking operation against systems around the world looking for, among other things, information on dangerous diseases like Ebola.
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