NEW: Justice Department announces 11-count indictment charging two alleged Chinese hackers accused of carrying out a massive global cyber intrusion campaign to steal trade secrets—including targeting companies conducting research for a COVID-19 vaccine.
"The defendants stole hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of trade secrets, intellectual property, and other valuable business information," the indictment said.
Their primary goal, according to federal prosecutors, was not only personal financial gain but to hand over stolen data and hacked information to China's Ministry of State Security and other Chinese government agencies. "The hackers stole terabytes of data which comprised a sophisticated and prolific threat to U.S. networks," the DOJ said in a press release."More recently, the defendants probed for vulnerabilities in computer networks of companies developing COVID-19
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