Category: indictment

US charges two Chinese hackers with trying to steal COVID-19 research

Post author By Randall
Post date July 21, 2020
Categories In charges, China, chinese, coronavirus, covid-19, cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, department of justice, doj, gear, hackers, indictment, News, Research, Security, Tech, us

[ad_1] According to the indictment, the hackers were working both for the Chinese government’s Ministry of State Security and for their own personal gain. At the moment, there’s no indication that they obtained any COVID-19 research. “China has now taken its place, alongside Russia, Iran and North Korea, in that shameful club of nations that […]

Huawei accuses US Justice Department of ‘political persecution’

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In business, cfo, fbi, gear, Huawei, indictment, intellectual property, justice department, Politics, Security, Tech, trade secrets

[ad_1] The company starts the statement by claiming that many of the criminal charges the US Justice Department announced yesterday are based on older civil disputes that have already been resolved in the past.”In these disputes, no court has ever found that Huawei had engaged in malicious intellectual property theft, or required Huawei to pay […]

Justice Department charges Huawei with stealing trade secrets, again

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In business, cfo, charges, fbi, gear, Huawei, indictment, intellectual property, Internet, justice department, Politics, Security, Tech, theft, trade secrets, wanzhou meng

[ad_1] These new charges allege that Huawei has run a decades-long attempt to steal intellectual property from six specific but unnamed US companies. Huawei allegedly got its hands on trade secrets and copyrighted work by entering into and then breaking confidentiality agreements, recruiting employees from competitors and using professors as proxies. Huawei even offered bonuses […]

US charges Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act

Post author By Randall
Post date May 23, 2019
Categories In espionage act, espionageact, gadgetry, gear, indictment, julian assange, julianassange, Politics, Security, Tech, wikileaks

[ad_1] He’s accused of publishing classified information obtained by whistleblower and former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning, who is currently in jail for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury. The documents allegedly included unredacted details about foreign people who have assisted the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and State Department officials around the […]

US charges China-based hacking group for massive 2015 Anthem breach

Post author By Randall
Post date May 10, 2019
Categories In Anthem, business, charges, China, conspiracy, data breach, fbi, fuji wang, gear, Hack, hackers, hacking group, indictment, john doe, justice department, malware, Security, spearphishing, Tech

[ad_1] Wang and Doe reportedly used “extremely sophisticated techniques,” including specially-tailored spear-phishing emails with embedded hyperlinks. When employees of the targeted businesses clicked the hyperlinks, a file downloaded and deployed malware, which created a backdoor to the computer systems. In some cases, the defendants waited months before taking further action. Then, they allegedly encrypted the […]