📚 US Charges Two Chinese Spies For a Global Hacking Campaign That Targeted COVID-19 Research

U.S. prosecutors have charged two Chinese nationals, said to be working for China's state intelligence bureau, for their alleged involvement in a massive global hacking operation that targeted hundreds of companies and governments for more than a decade. From a report: The 11-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33, stole terabytes of data from high-technology companies, around the world -- including the United States, the prosecutors said. More recently, the prosecutors accused the hackers of targeting the networks of over a dozen U.S. companies in Maryland, Massachusetts and California developing vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The indictment comes just weeks after both the FBI and Homeland Security warned that China was actively trying to steal U.S. research data related to the coronavirus pandemic. The hackers were first discovered after they targeted a U.S. Department of Energy network in Hanford, Washington, the Justice Department said.

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