Hackers running with the Chinese government have targeted corporations that are preparing coronavirus vaccines and stole millions of dollars in intellectual and secret assets from the corporate industry around the world, the Justice Department said Tuesday when he uttered crime charges.
The indictment does not accuse the two Chinese defendants of actually obtaining an investigation into the coronavirus, but underscores how clinical innovation has been a primary target for foreign governments and hackers seeking to find out which U.S. corporations are provoking the pandemic.
In this case, the hackers looked for vulnerabilities in the computer networks of biotechnology companies and diagnostic companies that were preparing vaccines and verification kits and looking for antiviral drugs. The accusations are the lack of a number of competitive moves through Trump’s management opposed to China. They come when President Donald Trump, his re-election clients torn by the coronavirus outbreak, blamed China for the pandemic and management officials stepped up their Beijing allegations, adding about alleged efforts to borrow intellectual assets through piracy.
The indictment includes fees for stealing industry secrets and planning electronic fraud against hackers, former power engineering schoolmates who prosecutors say have worked together for more than a decade targeting high-tech corporations in more than 10 countries.
The hackers, known as Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi, stole data only for their own non-public benefit, but also for studies and generation that they knew would be valuable to the Chinese government, prosecutors said.
In some cases, according to the indictment, they provided a Chinese intelligence service officer with whom email accounts and passwords belonging to pro-democracy clerics, dissidents and activists who at the time could be targeted at the time.
The officer helped by offering malware after one of the hackers fought to compromise the email server of a Burmese human rights group. Both defendants are in custody and federal officials admitted Tuesday that they will most likely set foot in U.S. court.
The fees came when Trump administration officials, who added national security adviser Robert O’Brien and Attorney General William Barr, issued public warnings about what they say are the Chinese government’s efforts to use piracy to use secrets from the lending industry to profit money from Beijing and covertly. influence American politics.
In addition, he said, “China offers a safe haven for hackers who, as in this case, hack components to gain advantages but are willing to help the state and request to do so.” The criminals’ fees are the first in the Decomposer to accuse foreign hackers of targeting coronavirus-related innovation, U.S. and Western intelligence agencies opposing such efforts warned for months.
Last week, for example, the governments of the United States, Canada and Britain accused a piracy organization with links to Russian intelligence of trying to conduct studies on the disease, which has killed more than 140,000 people in the United States and more than 600,000 worldwide. Array according to figures compiled through Johns Hopkins University.
The prosecution describes the hackers’ multiple efforts to spy on corporations involved in the coronavirus investigation, not accusing them of good fortune in any theft. Prosecutors say Li networked a computer network in January at a Massachusetts biotechnology company known for seeking a possible vaccine and looked for vulnerabilities in a Maryland company’s network less than a week after the company said it was doing similar clinical work.
Li also found the networks of a California diagnostic company concerned about the progression of verification kits and a state-owned biotechnology company for antiviral drugs. Vaccine data piracy is slowing down studies because the establishment wants to fight not only to correct the gap, but also to ensure that the knowledge it has accumulated has not been altered, Demers said.
The indictment was sent this month to a federal court in the Eastern District of Washington, where the hacking described through prosecutors was first discovered on the Department of Energy’s Hanford site. “If this can happen there, we all want to know that it can happen anywhere,” Federal Prosecutor William Hyslop said of his district.
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