Posted on 05/10/2020 7:57:10 PM PDT by Helicondelta
The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to issue a warning that China’s most skilled hackers and spies are working to steal American research in the crash effort to develop vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus. The efforts are part of a surge in cybertheft and attacks by nations seeking advantage in the pandemic.
A draft of the forthcoming public warning, which officials say is likely to be issued in the days to come, says China is seeking “valuable intellectual property and public health data through illicit means related to vaccines, treatments and testing.”
It focuses on cybertheft and action by “nontraditional actors,” a euphemism for researchers and students the Trump administration says are being activated to steal data from inside academic and private laboratories.
The decision to issue a specific accusation against China’s state-run hacking teams, current and former officials said, is part of a broader deterrent strategy that also involves United States Cyber Command and the National Security Agency.
Under legal authorities that President Trump issued nearly two years ago, they have the power to bore deeply into Chinese and other networks to mount proportional counterattacks.
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Not surprised.
If your bio-weapon is in danger of being disarmed you would want find a way to tweak it to keep it viable.
If they have that big of an effort to steal vaccine research data, that means very clearly that their reported cases/deaths from the Wuhanic Plague are way understand and are a continuing problem which they are NOT reporting. More than likely China had at least 3 million cases of the Chinese Flu and probably around 250,000 deaths already and they STILL don’t have it under control. This Peking Pestilence is going to be a big problem for the Chinese leaders. It would be better if they told the truth about the Beijing Bug.
Expel them as spies
Just one nuke into the lab that started this will put an end to this shit once in for all!
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