US indicts 2 Chinese hackers of stealing COVID-19 vaccine research

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The Chinese hackers also targeted human rights activists in the United States and Hong Kong, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said

Two Chinese nationals have been arraigned for trying to take COVID-19 antibody examination and protected innovation from several organizations in the United States and different nations, the US Justice Department said Tuesday.

Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33, additionally focused on human rights activists in the United States, China and Hong Kong, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said.

The programmers, who are accepted to be in China past the scope of US law implementation, acted in certain occurrences "for their very own benefit" and in others to assist China's Ministry of State Security, Demers said at a question and answer session.

"Cybercrimes coordinated by the Chinese government's insight administrations undermine the United States as well as each other nation that supports reasonable play, worldwide standards, and the standard of law," FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said.

US Attorney William Hyslop said the programmers focused on organizations around the world.

"The PC frameworks of numerous organizations, people and offices all through the United States and worldwide have been hacked and bargained with an immense cluster of delicate and significant competitive innovations, advances, information, and individual data being taken," Hyslop said.

The Justice Department said the objectives of the hackings included "many casualty organizations, governments, non-administrative associations, and individual dissenters, church, and popularity based and human rights activists in the United States and abroad, including Hong Kong and China."

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