Category: China

Global chase cracked corporate espionage case

(Boston.com) . . . His case marked what would be the opening round of a two-year fight by the Devens-based technology firm known as AMSC to defend its intellectual property rights — even as it lost millions of dollars and laid off hundreds of workers as the result of the software theft. It would also […]

Chinese company stole secrets from US company; 500 jobs lost

500 American workers lost their jobs because a Chinese company stole $800 million dollars worth of their company’s trade secrets. How much is security worth? It’s ironic that apparently three years ago, Obama heralded this US company’s trade relationship with China as a “model for job creation in the US and China.” Some ‘model’!   […]

Protecting American High-End Research as China Rises

(New York Times)   If the authors of a new book, “Chinese Industrial Espionage,” are right, and China is carrying out one of the greatest intellectual heists of history in its systematic transfer of the advanced research and development of other nations — including the West, Japan and elsewhere — to China, what can the world […]

Old School Chinese Espionage Behind Alleged NYU Theft

FBI press release on this case follows article. (Epoch Times) Charges against three researchers at New York University provide an example of what experts call a classic example of Chinese espionage. Yudong Zhu, Xing Yang, and Ye Li allegedly provided a Chinese company with information on federally-funded research they were conducting. Following an FBI investigation, […]

New DOD Report: Espionage fuels China’s fast-paced military buildup

This new Department of Defense report is required reading: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2013 (US Department of Defense) Excerpts from the report: Espionage Supporting Military Modernization China utilizes a large, well organized network of enterprises, defense factories, affiliated research institutes, and computer network operations to facilitate the collection of […]

Update on NASA Chinese Contractor Case

U.S. Finds Porn Not Secrets on Suspected China Spy’s PC (Business Week) A Chinese research scientist suspected of spying on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration – — and pulled from a plane in March as he was about to depart for China — is set to plead to a misdemeanor charge of violating agency […]

INSIDER THREAT: University Researcher Charged with Economic Espionage for China

It never ends. Each time you read one of these cases, they all end up having one country in common: China. Medical College of Wisconsin researcher charged with economic espionage; Feds allege anti-cancer compound was stolen for China (Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel) A researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin has been charged with stealing a […]

L-3 employee gets 5+ years for exporting military secrets to China

5-plus years for Illinois man in military secrets case (AP) A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former employee of a New Jersey-based defense contractor to more than five years in prison for taking U.S. military technology trade secrets to his native China, ignoring the man’s contentions that it was an error in judgment and […]

NASA locks out foreigners, orders security review following concerns of Chinese spying

(Fox News)  NASA has locked its facilities to foreigners, disabled online research databases and ordered a complete review of access by foreign nationals to its facilities, as allegations swirled of foreign spies within the space agency. The reports came to a head this weekend with the arrest of former consultant Bo Jiang as he was leaving […]

More on Bishop Spy Case

Honeytrap snares defense contractor in alleged Hawaii-China espionage case (KHON) What happened to turn Benjamin Pierce Bishop — an Army Reserves lieutenant colonel and defense contractor — into an alleged conduit of secret information for China? Security experts say there were red flags in the kind of relationship struck up between the U.S. Pacific Command […]

Military contractor/Army reservist charged with passing classified info to Chinese girlfriend

(Hawaii News Now) A defense contractor living in Kapolei is accused of leaking U.S. military secrets. The Army reservist with a top secret security clearance allegedly shared classified data with his girlfriend who is a Chinese national. Court documents revealed that Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59, met the 27-year-old in Hawaii at a conference on international […]

FBI arrests NASA contractor about to leave U.S. for China

(Federal News Radio) A Chinese national under investigation for possible violations of the Arms Control Act was arrested Saturday aboard a plane at Dulles International Airport as he was attempting to leave the country. Bo Jiang, a contractor at the National Institute of Aerospace who worked at NASA-Langley in Hampton, Va., was charged Monday with […]

FBI investigating NASA whistleblower reports of Chinese data breach

Federal News Radio: The congressman who oversees the committee that funds NASA says the FBI is looking into whistleblower reports that the agency allowed a Chinese national inside access to sensitive information, and that the data may have made its way back to the Chinese mainland. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said he turned the allegations […]

APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units

Mandiant has issued a new report focused on the most prolific cyber espionage group Mandiant tracks: APT1. This single organization has conducted a cyber espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006. See also below a New York Times article re this Chinese cyber unit attacks on US companies and infrastructure and how they got […]

Theft is still the biggest problem for US companies in China

From The Economist: “If the technology matters, then don’t bring it to China as it will get stolen.” ON JANUARY 5th, in a night raid, a gang of criminals broke into a factory near Shanghai owned by Mercury Cable, an American manufacturer of high-voltage equipment. The thieves took not only raw materials but machinery from […]

Two Recent Illegal Export to China Cases

Takeaway quote: “Oregon is rich with high-tech innovators and companies that power the U.S. economy. These companies can become targets for foreign nationals and governments who want to take advantage of American research and production while taking aim at American national security interests.” — Greg Fowler, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Oregon […]

Insider Threat: GM Engineer Convicted of Stealing $40M Trade Secrets for China

US Citizens Shanshan Du (Engineer with General Motors) and Yu Qin. I guess they didn’t become Americans because they were motivated by the ideals of freedom and liberty of America’s Founding Fathers. Double the insider threat. Two Convicted in Conspiracy to Steal GM Trade Secrets (FBI/Detroit) –A former General Motors engineer and her husband were […]

Huawei probed for security, espionage risk

CBS 60 Minutes: If you’re concerned about the decline of American economic power and the rise of China, then there is no better case study than Huawei. Chances are you’ve never heard of this Chinese technology giant, but in the space of 25 years it’s become the largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in the world; […]