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Industrial espionage by China
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2023: CIA asks non-state companies to help with US border spying
In mid-March 2023, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen called on private companies and organizations to work more actively with the department to strengthen US intelligence capabilities. Read more here.
2022: Emigrants from Russia who supplied electronics were arrested on suspicion of espionage in Sweden
On November 22, 2022, a married couple was detained in Sweden, who moved to this country from Russia in the late 1990s. Husband and wife suspected of espionage.
According to Aftonbladet, the couple is in the business of importing and exporting, including electronic components and industrial technologies. Police suspect they may have used their firms for illegal intelligence. It is noted that the company was already under the scrutiny of the tax service in 2016 - it had "a complex ownership structure that leads to tax havens abroad." Their home was even searched.
According to the documents of the Stockholm District Court, cited by the Dagens Nyheter newspaper, one of the arrested emigrants from Russia is suspected of "illegal intelligence activities against the kingdom and another foreign power," the second - of complicity in the crime.
 | The information that was received, transmitted and disclosed by unauthorized persons may, due to the fact that it has become available to foreign powers, harm the security of Sweden, the kingdom's prosecutor's office said. |  |
In the first half of November 2022, employees of the national security department of the kingdom's prosecutor's office were charged with espionage in favor of Russia to two brothers, one of whom worked in the Swedish security agencies. The names of the defendants and their citizenship were not officially disclosed, but it was reported that they were in custody from the fall of 2021.
Aftonbladet wrote that the suspects are brothers Peyman and Payam Kia. Peiman Kia worked in SEPO and military intelligence (Must) of Sweden and, according to investigators, processed "very important documents of the Armed Forces" on his computer. The detainees did not admit their guilt.[1]
2018: Hackers launch new industrial spying with virus for AutoCAD
On November 29, 2018, company analysts Forcepoint discovered a unique malware distribution campaign that targets companies using ON on-base. AutoCAD The researchers believe that this campaign has been active since 2014, and the attackers behind the attacks are engaged in industrial espionage, as indicated by a specific distribution niche - malware AutoCAD is an expensive program used mainly by engineers and designers. Probably, hackers are mainly interested in the energy sector, although they attack companies and enterprises in different countries of the world, including China India, Turkey and the UAE. More. here
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