Pompeo says Chinese threat ‘inside the gates’ amid rising fears about risk to US data, economic security
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the threat from the Chinese Communist Party is “inside the gates” of the United States, as he backed strong language from FBI Director Christopher Wray about the Beijing threat and warned of the risks to privacy from Chinese control of social media apps such as TikTok. “It’s inside the gates, […]
MIT: The US crackdown on Chinese economic espionage is a mess. We have the data to show it.
A snapshot of the CCP’s China Initiative to steal US Intellectual Property – an estimated 2% of actual theft. The IP is used to take over companies and industries and weaken the US and our Western allies. MIT had questions about the DOJ’s pursuit of the China Initiative, so they began digging. Here is what […]
Report: China mass harvesting Americans’ Facebook, Twitter data to bolster spying, propaganda
China has been using its online monitoring tools to gather Americans’ and other Western users’ Facebook and Twitter activities, according to hundreds of documents reviewed and reported by the Washington Post this week. The Chinese Internet-monitoring tools, known as public opinion analysis software, were reportedly developed over the past decade to warn of sensitive information being spread […]
Economic Espionage and the Growing Case for Corporate Counterintelligence
Expanding profiles of ‘actors’ points to new global risk in information protection, cybersecurity. Originally posted at Security Infowatch. In the 2016 movie, “Snowden” former National Security Agency intelligence contractor Edward Snowden uncovers massive amounts of illegally obtained data assembled to track digital communications from foreign governments, terrorist groups and ordinary Americans. For many, the biographical […]
TikTok Is Spyware for the Chinese Regime, Cyber Experts Warn
TikTok, the short-video app used by millions of mostly young Americans, cannot be trusted due to its links to the Chinese regime and should be banned, cybersecurity experts warned. The app, owned by Beijing-based internet giant Bytedance Technology Co., has come under intense scrutiny after the Trump administration confirmed that it was mulling a ban on TikTok […]
Texas Man Convicted of Stealing US Marine Tech to Benefit Beijing Regime
A federal jury in Washington has convicted a Texas man of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets in order to transfer dual-use marine technology to the Chinese regime and its state-owned companies. Shi Shan, 54, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Texas, was convicted following a nine-day trial, according to a July 29 press release from the U.S. Department of […]
Former GE Engineer and Chinese Businessman Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft of GE’s Trade Secrets
The Pair Allegedly Conspired to Steal GE’s Trade Secrets for Use in Their China-Based Companies to Benefit the People’s Republic of China WASHINGTON – An indictment unsealed today charges Xiaoqing Zheng, age 56, of Niskayuna, New York, and Zhaoxi Zhang, age 47, of Liaoning Province, China, with economic espionage and conspiring to steal General Electric’s […]
Cyber espionage warning: The most advanced hacking groups are getting more ambitious
The top 20 most notorious cyber espionage operations have increased their activity by a third in recent years – and are looking to conduct more attacks, according to a security company. The most advanced hacking groups are becoming bolder when conducting campaigns, with the number of organisations targeted by the most biggest campaigns rising by […]
US intelligence warns China is using student spies to steal secrets
Washington (CNN) – In August 2015, an electrical engineering student in Chicago sent an email to a Chinese national titled “Midterm test questions.”More than two years later, the email would turn up in an FBI probe in the Southern District of Ohio involving a suspected Chinese intelligence officer who authorities believed was trying to acquire technical information […]
How a former CIA officer was caught betraying his country
Kevin Mallory was a down on his luck former clandestine case officer for the CIA when he was approached by a man the department of justice believes was a Chinese spy. Officials say Mallory was a prime target for recruitment. He was out of work, three months behind on his mortgage, and thousands of dollars […]