In the latest “denouncing and shaming” the Chinese government-sponsored cyber theft, the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday announced an indictment accusing two Chinese citizens, whether in China, of hacking governments, dissidents, human rights activists and personal companies, adding COVID- 19 Vaccine Research.
“Hackers stole terabytes of knowledge that posed a complicated and prolific risk to American networks,” a Justice Department said.
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A grand jury indictment accused Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33, of running a piracy crusade corporation for more than 10 years in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
According to the indictment, the hackers were operating either by their own advantages and by China’s main intelligence service, the State Security Ministry. He says they were assisted by an unnamed Chinese intelligence officer known to the grand jury.
Targets included high-tech brands, medical device brands, civil and commercial engineers, gaming software brands, solar power companies; pharmaceutical brands and defense contractors.
Among the thirteen American patients were: a California generation and defense company, a Maryland generation and production company, the DOE Hanford site in Washington, a Texas engineering company, a Virginia defense contractor, a Massachusetts software company, a gaming software company in California, and several U.S. drug manufacturers.
The court documents imply that the hackers “looked for vulnerabilities in biotechnology networks and other corporations publicly known for their paintings on vaccines, remedies and COVID-19 test technology, but does not say they have been given any.
The hackers tried to extort a victim’s cryptocurrency, the Justice Department said, threatening to reveal the victim’s stolen source code on the Internet. “More recently, defendants have investigated the vulnerabilities of the PC networks of corporations that are preparing COVID-19 vaccines, technologies and treatments.”