The United States has sued three Chinese citizens for using hacking tactics to intrude on Moody's Analytics, maker of Siemens and global positioning system (GPS) Trimble, which accused them of stealing sensitive information, Including a key Moody's email, as well as intellectual property.
The three suitors, Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, who live in China, are said to have worked for Boyusec, a cyber-security company in China. Man's prosecution is unusual because it can be difficult to pinpoint the originator of a cyberattack, and it sometimes seems too straightforward to do so.
Dana Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney for National Security, said the Department of Justice's 'good memory' will focus on the pursuit and prosecution of cybercriminals.
"The Department of Justice and the FBI once again prove that hackers around the world who want to steal the most sensitive and valuable information from our business can be exposed and chastised," he said.
The three sued individuals allegedly used a spear phishing email with attachments and malware links to intrude into these companies' networks, and when employees of those companies clicked links in the email, hackers could access the company's computers and search for businesses Confidential Information.
In 2011, Xia Lei allegedly visited the Moody's internal mail server and manipulated the server to forward all mail of an important employee to his accomplice-controlled account, alleging that Xia Lei, in 2013 and 2014, Read Moody economists' emails to see proprietary and confidential economic analyzes, findings and perspectives.
Recorded Future, a U.S. security firm, reported in a report this year that Bo Yu is a Chinese government contractor linked to a hacker group known as APT3.
The report said: 'Recorded Future's research gives us a great grasp of the origin of APT3 back to China's Ministry of National Security and Bo Yu Bo Yu has developed a malicious technology and cooperation with the Chinese intelligence services record.
The above Moody's employees are known as 'influential economists specializing in macroeconomics and housing finance,' which Moody's joins Moody's through Moody's acquisition of Economy.com in 2005.
The indictment said the hackers had attacked Siemens in 2014. At the time, Dong Ho had allegedly used his staff password to enter the Siemens network and stole confidential data relating to Siemens energy, technology and shipping operations to a total of 407GB of data.
It is alleged that Wu Yingzhu stole commercial secrets related to global navigation satellite technology being developed by Tianbao in 2015 and 2016. The indictment alleges that this may 'help one of Tianbao's competitors not to spend millions of dollars in research and development costs Develop, offer and sell a similar product. '
The three Chinese are each charged with eight counts, including conspiracy to commit computer fraud and fraud in conspiracy to steal trade secrets.
Moody's Analytics said it has been working closely with U.S. law enforcement agencies and constantly reviewing its cybersecurity defense and said: 'To the best of our knowledge, there is no disclosure of customer data or other employee personal information due to this incident.'
People familiar with Moody's analysis of hacking incidents said there was no disclosure of classified data due to the incident.
Siemens said that information security is 'top priority' but will not comment on internal security issues, said Tianbao, which said no customer data was leaked and the incident did not have any impact on its business.
The indictment was submitted by the Pennsylvania District Attorney's Office in Western Pennsylvania, where the office was responsible for the extremely eye-catching criminal suit against Chinese hackers in 2014. At that time, five Chinese officers were accused of using hacking to invade U.S. steelmakers and A union's computer system steals trade secrets.
The U.S. signaled the appearances of these hackers on the arrest warrant as part of U.S. efforts to contain commercial espionage in China, and in September 2015 President Barack Obama, then President of the People's Republic of China, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Committed countries will not knowingly support economic cyber espionage, and government and civic experts later noticed fewer such cyber attacks.