WASHINGTON, July 22 — The US Justice Department yesterday indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in what the agency called a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted defense contractors, Covid researchers and hundreds of other victims worldwide. US authorities said Li Xiaoyu and...
Wednesday, 22 Jul 2020 10:08 AM MYT
US authorities said Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi stole terabytes of weapons designs, drug information, software source code, and personal data from targets that included dissidents and Chinese opposition figures. They were contractors for the Chinese government, rather than full-fledged spies, US officials said.
Messages left with several accounts registered under Li's digital alias, oro0lxy, were not immediately returned. Contact details for Dong were not immediately available. Li and Dong were “one of the most prolific group of hackers we've investigated,” said FBI Special Agent Raymond Duda, who heads the agency's Seattle field office.
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