Category: China

Chinese hackers try to access info on federal employees getting security clearances

Hat tip to Mary Beth (New York Times) Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials. They appeared to be targeting the files on tens of thousands of employees who have applied for top-secret […]

Engineer Faces 20 Years for Economic Espionage

This man recruited two DuPont engineers to steal secrets. (AP)  A Northern California chemical engineer is facing more than 20 years in prison for a rare economic-espionage conviction for selling to China the technology that creates a white pigment. A jury convicted Walter Liew, 56, of selling DuPont Co.’s secret recipe for making cars, paper […]

Chinese National Arrested for Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets

Children of the Corn (FBI) United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced today the arrest and indictment of Mo Yun, for conspiracy to steal trade secrets. Mo Hailong was previously arrested in December of 2013. The Superseding Indictment alleges that from on or about January of 2007, to on or about December of 2012, Mo Hailong, […]

Chinese National Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain Technology Products from U.S. Companies

(FBI) Zhenchun Huang, a/k/a Ted Huang, age 51, a Chinese national and naturalized U.S. citizen, formerly residing in Clarksville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to false personation of a federal employee and obstruction of justice, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain technology products from U.S. companies for export to China. According to his plea […]

US Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage

FBI Cyber’s Most Wanted Posters Department of Justice/Office of Public Affairs Monday, May 19, 2014 U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Corporations and a Labor Organization for Commercial Advantage First Time Criminal Charges Are Filed Against Known State Actors for Hacking Indictment (.pdf) A grand jury in the Western District of […]

New FBI Video on Espionage Recruitment: Game of Pawns

Game of Pawns: The Glenn Duffie Shriver Story video, dramatizes the incremental steps taken by intelligence officers to recruit Shriver and convince him to apply for jobs with the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency.  Shriver Case: A Textbook Case of Recruitment Glenn Duffie Shriver seemed like an average college student—majoring in international relations […]

5 Examples of Chinese Spying On Corporate America

(From Business Insider). . . . . Here are five ways Beijing is still eating America’s economic lunch: Buying Trade Secrets Earlier this month, naturalized Chinese American Walter Liew was found guilty of 20 criminal counts, including industrial espionage and theft of trade secrets.  Liew was hired by a state-owned company in China to buy […]

Death by China documentary

In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization with the strong support of a Democratic President and Republican Congress. Before the ink was dry on this free trade agreement, China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized exports while the big multinational companies that had lobbied heavily for the agreement rapidly accelerated the off shoring […]

Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China’s Stealth Fighter

(Washington Free Beacon/Bill Gertz)   A cyber espionage operation by China seven years ago produced sensitive technology and aircraft secrets that were incorporated into the latest version of China’s new J-20 stealth fighter jet, according to U.S. officials and private defense analysts. The Chinese cyber spying against the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II took place in […]

Defense contractor to plead guilty to leaking military secrets

FINALLY, an update about the Benjamin Bishop case: (AP) A civilian defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to a Chinese girlfriend half his age will be entering a guilty plea, his attorney said Tuesday. Benjamin Bishop was expected to plead guilty in federal court on Thursday to one count of transmitting national defense information to […]

Guilty Verdict in Conspiracy to Sell Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies

(FBI, 5 March 2014) Two Individuals and Company Found Guilty in Conspiracy to Sell Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies First Federal Jury Conviction Under Economic Espionage Act of 1996 WASHINGTON—A federal jury in San Francisco has found two individuals and one company guilty of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, bankruptcy fraud, tax evasion, and […]

Chinese Implicated in Agricultural Espionage Efforts

(New York Times) The case of the missing corn seeds first broke in May 2011 when a manager at a DuPont research farm in east-central Iowa noticed a man on his knees, digging up the field. When confronted, the man, Mo Hailong, who was with his colleague Wang Lei, appeared flushed. Mr. Mo told the manager […]

Shipyard worker’s foreign contacts get him in trouble

Pearl Harbor shipyard worker denounces anonymous claim of spying (Stars & Stripes) A senior Pearl Harbor shipyard manager says he was falsely accused of espionage, taken off the job in March and has not been paid since July — even though an investigation cleared him of the “foreign influence” allegations. Gerald “Gino” Palermo, a former submariner […]

Economic Espionage trial over China allegations begins

(Reuters) Opening statements in a rare criminal economic espionage trial are expected to begin on Wednesday in a case where prosecutors accuse a U.S. citizen of conspiring to steal trade secrets from chemical giant DuPont for the benefit of a Chinese company. California businessman Walter Liew is accused of paying former DuPont engineers for assistance in […]

Chinese Firm Paid US Gov’t Intelligence Adviser

(AP) A longtime adviser to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has resigned after the government learned he has worked since 2010 as a paid consultant for Huawei Technologies Ltd., the Chinese technology company the U.S. has condemned as an espionage threat, The Associated Press has learned. Theodore H. Moran, a respected expert on China’s international […]

Defense contractor’s bail revoked after he sends Chinese girlfriend letter, email

Finally, some news about the Bishop spy case: (AP) A magistrate revoked bail Thursday for a U.S. defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to his Chinese girlfriend, because the man sent her a letter and email against a judge’s orders. Benjamin Bishop must return to federal detention while he awaits trial, U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin […]

Relentless Chinese Espionage Against US companies

(AP) American prosecutors say Pangang Group aimed high. The Chinese state-owned company wanted a better process to make titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in paint, toothpaste and Oreo cookie filling. So it paid spies to steal it from industry giant DuPont. Pangang was indicted last year on U.S. charges of industrial spying and a retired […]

China Cyber Espionage and the Theft of U.S. Intellectual Property and Technology

Recent hearing on the Hill regarding Cyber Espionage and the Theft of U.S. Intellectual Property and Technology — mainly from China. Video below Cyber espionage has obvious implications for national security, foreign relations, and the American economy. The Commission, which Senator Slade Gorton represents today, recently published a report on the theft of intellectual property and […]