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Insider Risk: Theft of Trade Secrets Nets Thief Six Months

| | Cyberlaw, Insider, insider risk, Intellectual Property, IP theft, semiconductor
An interesting case of insider risk wrapped up recently in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts when U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G. Young handed down a lenient sentence to Haoyang ...
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Uber’s Latest Shenanigans

| | Data breach, Intellectual Property, Uber
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in conjunction with a number of worldwide publications, jointly released an ICIJ investigation, “The Uber Files” which detailed the back room deals and access enjoyed ...
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Cybereason Discloses Attack Vector Used by Chinese Cybergang to Steal IP

| | Cybereason, cyberespionage, ERP application, Intellectual Property, Winnti
The Cybereason Nocturnus Incident Response Team today divulged how cybercriminals affiliated with the Chinese Winnti APT group compromised enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications in Windows environments. Dubbed Operation CuckooBees, the cyberespionage attacks ...
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FBI Director Warns of Chinese Espionage Threats

| | china, cyberespionage, FBI, Intellectual Property
FBI Director Christopher Wray said in an interview on CBS’s Sunday news program 60 Minutes that the current level of cybersecurity threats from China was “unprecedented in history” and highlighted the country’s ...
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Former GE Engineer Convicted of Economic Espionage

| | china, Cybersecurity, economic espionage, General Electric, insider threat, Intellectual Property
On April 1, 2022, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the conviction of Xiaoqing Zheng of conspiracy to commit economic espionage following a four-week jury trial. Zheng will be sentenced on August ...
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Teachable Moment: An Insider Threat on Your Team

| | Code42, Insider, insider threat, Insider threat management, Intellectual Property
No manager or executive wants to receive a phone call informing them that a team member has engaged in suspicious activities that require a security investigation. But that’s just what happened to ...
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Malicious Life Podcast: DeadRinger - Exposing Chinese APTs Targeting Major Telcos

Malicious Life Podcast: DeadRinger – Exposing Chinese APTs Targeting Major Telcos

| | Advanced persistent threat, APT, APT27, china, Cybersecurity, Emissary Panda, Espionage, Group-3390, Hacking, Infosec, Intellectual Property, Malicious Life, Microsoft Exchange, Naikon, Nation-state Attack, national security, Operation Soft Cell, Podcast, PodcastsCat, research, security, telecommunications, telecoms
Cybereason recently discovered several previously unidentified attack campaigns targeting the telecoms industry across Southeast Asia that are assessed to be the work of multiple Chinese APT groups. The attacks are detailed in ...
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Verizon Report Finds Cyber Espionage Attacks Aimed Mostly at Endpoints

| | Cyber Espionage, cyberattack research, Intellectual Property, nation-states, R&D
Verizon has published a 2020 Cyber Espionage Report that finds the bulk of these types of attacks are aimed at endpoints such as desktops and laptops. Based on data collected for a ...
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DoJ Continues to Target China’s Thousand Talents Program in U.S.

| | china, DOJ, economic espionage, Intellectual Property, Thousand Talent Program
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to use every arrow in its prosecutorial quiver to go after those participants who are exposing and sharing U.S. research and technologies to China via ...
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Reverse Engineering Intellectual Property: Chip Ptychographic X-ray Laminography

| | Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security, Intellectual Property, Reverse Engineering
Image Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute - Ptychographic X-ray Laminography via Samuel K. Moore - writing for IEEE Spectrum Magazine - comes this outstanding article published on October 7th, 2019; in which, Mr ...
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