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Hello. Two U.S. enforcement actions this week highlight insider security threats linked to very different motivations.
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a former U.S. Navy machinist of espionage charges for selling secret information about his ship and others to a Chinese intelligence officer. The sailor, stationed in San Diego, was paid $12,000 for the material, including photos and videos, over 18 months ending in 2023.
“China continues to aggressively target U.S. military members with and without clearances,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division.
In a second case, a Chinese national living and working in Houston was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison for detonating malware on his former employer’s network in 2019, after his job responsibilities were reduced in a reorganization at the Ohio business.
In addition to crashing computers and deleting files, he set up a kill switch that would lock all employees out of the company’s systems if his credentials were disabled. The company suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses, the Justice Department said.
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