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DOJ: Chinese hackers stole "hundreds of millions of dollars" of secrets
Two state-sponsored hackers in China targeted US businesses in a "sophisticated and prolific threat" for more than 10 years, both for financial gain and to steal trade secrets, the Department of Justice said today.
The 11-count indictment (PDF), which was made public today, alleges Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi worked with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) and other agencies to hack into "hundreds of victim companies, governments, non-governmental organizations, and individual dissidents, clergy, and democratic and human rights activists in the United States and abroad."
Li and Dong were allegedly infiltrating networks of businesses in a wide array of sectors, including "high tech manufacturing; civil, industrial, and medical device engineering; business, educational, and gaming software development; solar energy; and pharmaceuticals," as well as defense contractors, since at least September 2009. In recent months, prosecutors allege, the two were seeking ways in to "the networks of biotech and other firms publicly known for work on COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and testing technology" in at least 11 countries, including the US.
The indictment does not name the firms in question, only saying that "on or about January 25 and 27," Li was trying to break into networks at a Maryland biotech firm and a Massachusetts biotech firm, both of which were publicly known by that point to be working on COVID-19 vaccines. Matching up the timelines, the targets seem to have been Novavax, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Moderna, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @02:24AM (1 child)
I am so sick and tired of the 'he copied me,' 'no, she copied me first,' nonsense. These people act like children.
Yes, everyone copies each other and everyone contributes to innovation. The U.S. has no monopoly on innovation. The Chinese innovates, the Japanese innovates, the EU innovates (Oxford), the U.S. innovates, Canada innovates. And everyone copies each other.
The idea that these petty patents and fights over who innovates the most and who 'steals' the most are noteworthy is nonsense. Not that all IP is bad but much of it turns out to be needless, expensive, petty, useless, and ends up hindering innovation. Everyone copies from each other and improves upon it and innovation would progress perfectly fine without it. Sure, some innovation may be better off with it but much of it would still progress without IP.
and stop saying that the Chinese is infringing on all of our patents. The Chinese now have plenty of their own patents and we infringe just as well. The quality of our patents is not any better than the quality of their patents. Most of the patents on both sides are equally as bogus. It's ridiculous that corporations and corporate bought politicians from both countries act like little children over such petty matters. I'm so sick of it.
and I know I'm going to get comments from all of the pro-IP shills here that will claim that China is 'stealing' all of our innovation. As if somehow the U.S. (with its lack of manufacturing) and all of its useless patent trolls somehow has an inherent monopoly on innovation and the Chinese only know how to 'steal' that which our idiot, well below average intelligence, monolingustic patent trolls that barely speak their own native language (I see them posting their drivel here, on Slashdot, and Techdirt) can come up with. As if anyone seriously sits around and reads these useless and often incoherent patents for ideas to manufacturer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @09:19PM
i don't have any sympathy for these windows-using companies. You want to support the digital slave trade then act all surprised when you are also the slave? fuck you.
also these Suited Whores who send the manufacturing jobs overseas then whine when the Chinese government does their fucking job and says "we will let you use our cheap labor, but you must give us the means to make and sell the items ourselves one day"! No one forced you to sell out your own countrymen.