COVID-19 Vaccine Research Targeted By Chinese Cyber-criminals

Human rights activists also targeted by the hackers in the US, Hong Kong, and China, alleges US Assistant Attorney General John Demers.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been charged with stealing and hacking the Kovid-19 vaccine research by hundreds of organizations in the United States and abroad, including defense contractors.

Assistant Attorney General John Demers said 34-year-old Li Jiao and 33-year-old Dong Jiao also targeted human rights activists in the United States, China and Hong Kong.

The allegation comes amid growing tensions among world powers led by the coronavirus epidemic that President Donald Trump has blamed China for.

Li and Dong, who are believed to be in China, acted in some cases "for their own personal gain" and at others to facilitate China's state defense ministry, Demers said at a news conference.
China now calls it its home, Russia, Iran and North Korea in Alangaid, a safe haven for cybercriminals from the Provident Club of Nations. Demers said.

Lee and Dong, classmates at an electrical engineering college in Wadung, have been involved in computer hacking operations for the past 10 years, the judiciary said.

These are the target groups in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Judge officials said Lee and Dong were targeting biotechnology companies in California, Maryland, Massachusetts and elsewhere, but did not appear to have compromised on any of the COVID-19 studies.
Disaster targets.

According to the complaint, Li and Dong provided passwords to the personal email accounts of the Chinese dissident, organizer of a community in Hong Kong, pastor of a Christian church in Xian, and the former Tiananmen Square defendant.

Among the stolen information was an unsolicited email from the Dalai Lama's office.

The pair were accused of stealing source code from software companies, drug-related information from pharmaceutical companies, and testing weapons testing and data from defense contractors.

Targeted foreign companies could not be identified by name.

The allegation was reversed by a grand jury on July 7 in the Eastern District of Washington, but on Tuesday it was simply unchanged.

China last month blamed the United States for the Beijing crash after allegations that Chinese hackers were trying to steal coronavirus research.

The claim further fueled tensions between the two countries, which have killed more than 600,000 people since the epidemic broke out in China late last year.

China has expressed strong dissatisfaction and strong opposition to such stench, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said.

Judging by past records, the United States has conducted the largest cyber-theft operation in the world, Zhao said.