FBI: China is stealing the US economy on an unprecedented scale:
-What is that Chinese technique? –
January 31
FBI Director
Christopher Ray
FBI Director Christopher Ray gave a keynote speech.
A lecture entitled “Countermeasures against threats posed by the Chinese government in the United States”.
Chinese Government Threats in the U.S.:
The Chinese government has stolen cutting-edge technology in the United States, threatening the economic security of the United States.
How to Steal US Technology in China:
What is the specific method of the Chinese government trying to steal the state-of-the-art technology of the United States? It was
Ray first touched on the similarities and differences between the former Soviet Union and China.
Similarity:
China also denies basic freedom, basic human rights and democratic norms.
Difference:
Currently, the United States and China have far more economic ties.
Matters the FBI is dealing with:
Of the FBI cases, more than 2000 were related to the theft of information and technology by the Chinese government.
“Made In China 2025”:
The Chinese government has listed it in a plan called “Made In China 2025”.
robot,
Green energy,
Aerospace,
Biopharma
10 technologies are the target.
Among these ten technologies, Ray described aerospace-related technology theft cases.
Steal GE Aviation Confidential Information:
Last November, a Chinese intelligence officer named Xu Yan Army attempted to steal GE’s confidential aviation information.
Xu Yuan Army
Chinese intelligence officer
Convicted in Cincinnati.
Xu faces up to 15 years in prison. It was
Xu tried to steal information on the advanced engine that GE manufactured with a foreign JV.
China Cyber MSS (Ministry of State Security, China)
Accessed by hackers
Xu
At GE, we acquired a person in a company that has access to sensitive data and IT.
He made it possible for MSS (Ministry of State Security) hackers to steal the same data.
Chinese espionage
Via Linkedin
Chinese university officials contacted GE engineers through LinkedIn to steal GE’s fan blade technology.
A Chinese university employee offered a US engineer a “presentation in China and a trip to Europe.”
FBI and GE Joint Operation:
The FBI, grasping this fact, pretended that “China’s plan is being carried out well.”
We had GE provide engineers with falsified documents on the assumption that they would be stolen.
Therefore, it was possible to prevent theft.
Chinese government hackers:
Not only stealing personal and corporate information
He also mentioned that he had committed malicious thefts against all American industries for 10 years. It was
Shinovel
Chinese government company
A Chinese government-owned company called Shinovel
I stole the source code for wind turbine control from American Superconductor.
as a result,
The corporate value of American Superconductor has fallen from $ 1.6 billion to $ 200 million.
China’s cyber theft problem:
The cyber theft problem is still going on, Ray said.
Agricultural, pharmaceutical and chemical targets:
The Chinese government
Source code of software companies and
Pharmaceutical company test data and chemical design,
Manufacturing company design design,
Hospitals and credit card companies,
Bank personal information etc.
It is said that it is targeted by hackers.
Economic theft operation by the Chinese government:
Not only is it unprecedented in history
It has done a lot of damage to decades of labor, ideas and investments.
It is overthrowing the security of the United States.
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Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Government Inside the U.S.
Threat to our Economic Vitality and Innovation
That’s what’s really at stake in the fight with the Chinese government here in America.
It’s home economics, not just macroeconomics.
America’s strength is built on our innovation,
When we tally up what we see in our investigations
—over 2,000 of which are focused on the Chinese government trying to steal our information and technology—
there is just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China.
The Chinese government steals staggering volumes of information and causes deep, job-destroying damage across a wide range of industries—
so much so that, as you heard, we’re constantly opening new cases to counter their intelligence operations, about every 12 hours or so.
What makes the Chinese government’s strategy so insidious
is the way it exploits multiple avenues at once, often in seemingly innocuous ways.
They identify key technologies to target.
Their “Made in China 2025” plan, for example, lists 10 broad ones
—the keys to economic success in the coming century—
spanning industries like robotics, green energy production and vehicles, aerospace, biopharma, and so on. And then—and then, they throw every tool in their arsenal at stealing that technology to succeed in those areas.
Here in the U.S., they unleash a massive, sophisticated hacking program that is bigger than those of every other major nation combined.
In just one case, one example,
a group of MSS-associated criminal hackers stole terabytes of data from hundreds of companies.Now, to put that in context, one terabyte is around 70 million pages of data.
Think about that.
They’re not just hacking on a huge scale but causing indiscriminate damage to get to what they want which compromised the networks of more than 10,000 American companies in a single campaign alone.At the same time,
the Chinese government uses intelligence officers to target the same information, multiplying their efforts by working extensively through scores of so-called co-optees.Basically, people who aren’t technically Chinese government officials but who assist in their intelligence operations—spotting and assessing sources, providing cover, communications, and helping steal secrets in other ways.
The Chinese government also makes investments and partnerships to position their proxies to take valuable technology.
Xu Yanjun and GE Aviation
A recent case from Ohio is a great illustration of the Chinese government’s multiprong strategy for stealing our valuable secrets.
This past November,
a Chinese intelligence officer named Xu Yanjun was convicted of economic espionage in Cincinnati.He was part of the Chinese Ministry of State Security,
which is one of their spy services, and he was in a unit responsible for stealing aviation-related secrets.Xu was targeting
an advanced engine made by GE and a foreign joint venture partner—an engine that Chinese state-owned enterprises were openly working to copy.He corrupted insiders with access to sensitive company data and access to company IT infrastructures,
so Xu could help MSS hackers, in cyber units back in China, target the same data at the same time.
Xu used one of his recruits,
or co-optees—this one a senior company IT official—to help him plant malware on a joint venture company laptop.He kept in touch with the MSS hackers in China to make sure that they could access the implant that he’d uploaded.
And then, to steal a particular composite fan blade technology that only GE possesses, he used another co-optee—this one an official at a prominent Chinese university—to contact a GE engineer through LinkedIn.
— FBI
Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage Involving Theft of Trade Secrets from Leading U.S. Aviation Companies | OPA | Department of Justice