U.S. prosecutors charged a New York company and its employees with a 13-year scheme to illegally import and sell Chinese-made surveillance and security equipment to the American government. Aventura “created a channel by which foreign adversaries and other actors” could access “some of our government’s most sensitive facilities and computer networks,” U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said at a news conference in Brooklyn, New York. The products Aventura claimed to manufacture had “known cybersecurity vulnerabilities,” he said….
Aventura sold laser-enhanced night vision cameras to the Navy and body cameras to the Air Force, prosecutors said. Aventura, which also claimed to manufacture walk-through metal detectors, collected at least $88 million in the scheme, prosecutors said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-07/u-s-charges-aventura-tech-with-illegal-sales-of-chinese-gear
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11-12-19 Uighur activists said they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain the ethnic group, alleging China could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of one million people….
Anders Corr, an analyst who formerly worked in US intelligence and who advised the group, said about 40 percent of the sites had not been previously reported. Randall Schriver, the top Pentagon official for Asia, said in May the figure was "likely closer to three million citizens" - an extraordinary number in a region of 10 million people.
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The computer that was funneling information, therefore, didn’t register on the roster of machines controlled and owned by the I.T. department. This left the security team with one definitively old-school option: t hey literally followed the wire that ran from the server to the rogue computer. One by one, they plucked up the tiles in the server room, followed the Cat-5 cable as it swam alongside hundreds of other cables, inside the walls, past yellow and white power wires, and through the labyrinthine office, until they found themselves at the end of the cord, which terminated inside a small closet. There, seated behind a laptop, was a young Chinese woman.
The security specialists searched her personal computer and immediately discovered more than 30 pieces of malware that were funneling information out of the servers and back to dozens of computers in China. The woman wasn’t an employee of the tech company. Instead, she had been hired as a student intern after e-mailing the company out of the blue, asking if she could assist in the office. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-silicon-valleys-spy-wars
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7-27-18
One former spy likened Chinese efforts to steal tech secrets from firms in Silicon Valley as akin to the 'Oklahoma land rush'. Much of this is done through recruiting tech staff, 'including via threats', according to the source.
Hackers have tried to access US intelligence warrants - a sign one former official saw as evidence of the Chinese government trying to find out how much the American authorities knew about their espionage activity. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6000355/The-Russian-Chinese-spies-accused-stealing-Silicon-Valley-secrets-swaying-politics.html
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see https://books.google.com/books?id=sWcolDneRrMC&pg=PT201&dq=hysta+beijing&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy6tO_1OXlAhWJlp4KHSJ2BkMQ6AEwAHoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=hysta%20beijing&f=false
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