A Chinese national has been accused of conducting a year-long spear-phishing campaign aimed at stealing source code from the US Army and NASA, plus other highly sensitive software used in aerospace and military applications.
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At least some of the spears hit their targets, and some of this restricted software made its way to China, according to a Justice Department release and an indictment [PDF].
The accused, Song Wu, 39, remains at large and has been charged with 14 counts of fraud and 14 counts of aggravated identity theft.
The DoJ alleges that Song was employed as an engineer at the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a Chinese state-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Beijing. While in that role, Song allegedly began sending phishing emails around January 2017 and continued until December 2021.
