Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged With Espionage Over U.S. Aviation Hacks

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http://time.com/5439846/chinese-agents-charged-espionage-aviation-hacking/

By BRIAN MELLEY
AP
October 30, 2018

(LOS ANGELES) -- Chinese intelligence officers and hackers working for 
them have been charged with commercial espionage that included trying to 
steal information on commercial jet engines, federal prosecutors said 
Tuesday.

The indictments named two officers working for the Nanjing-based foreign 
intelligence arm of China’s Ministry of State Security and six other 
defendants who allegedly conspired from 2010 to 2015 to steal sensitive 
turbofan engine technology used in commercial aviation.

The hackers used spear phishing to deploy malware and other means to 
intrude into a French aerospace company that was developing the engines 
with a U.S. company, prosecutors said. The suspects also hacked into 
aerospace companies in Massachusetts, Oregon and Arizona that manufactured 
engine parts.

A Chinese state-owned aerospace company was working at the time to develop 
a similar type of engine for use in commercial aircraft.

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