US Charges Employee of China’s State-Owned Aerospace Conglomerate With Phishing Scheme

A Chinese national working for one of China’s state-owned aerospace and defense companies has been indicted on charges related to an alleged hacking scheme targeting the U.S. military and other sectors, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Song Wu, 39, an employee of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), allegedly tried to fraudulently obtain computer software and source code from NASA, the Air Force, the Navy, the Army, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in a spear-phishing email scheme from 2017 to 2021, according to an indictment unsealed by a federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sept. 16. Song also allegedly tried to send spear-phishing emails to individuals working at major universities in Georgia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio, as well as those in private-sector aerospace companies....