OR China today he proclaimed three “Secret Agents” of the US National Security Service (NSA) who accuses that last February last February. cyberattacks against the Winter Asian Games.
Specifically, China has announced that it offers’ pay ‘to arrest the three’ secrets agentsNSA, one of the main US intelligence services, specializes in espionage and cyberback.
OR case has not been linked to the trade war launched by US President Donald Trump Against China, however, this announcement is made in a period of strong tensions between Beijing and Washington on this issue.
Harbin police (northeast China) announced today that It included the list of three “secret agents” of the NSA.
These persons, who were announced to be called ‘Katheryn A. Wilson, Robert J. Snelling and Stephen W. Johnson“, Are accused of They carried out cyberattacks against Winter Asian Gamesheld in February in Harbin.
It was found that ‘repeatedly carried out cyberattacks in critical Chinese IT infrastructure and participated in cyberattacks against her Huawei and other businesses. “
Police, after conducting investigations, also accused the University of California and Virginia Tech of being involved in the attacks, according to today’s New China News Agency telegram (Xinhua). Police, however, did not specify how the two US universities were involved.
Chinese authorities had announced in early April that recorded more than 270,000 out of external cyberattacks against the systems of the Asian Games of Harbin.
Since then research ‘It revealed that US NSA cyberattacks were mainly aimed at critical IT systems » Asian races related to registration, management of arrivals and departures and filming of the races, the New China agency said today.
These systems’contained sensitive data for participants » and “The NSA manifestly sought to steal athletes’ private information”underlined the agency. Harbin police say it offers “pay” to anyone who provides “useful information” or ‘Contributes to the arrest of suspects’.
According to the announcement, Suspects as NSA agents also targeted Chinese businessesincluding the Chinese giant of the Huawei telecommunications, which since 2019 is targeted by US sanctions in the name of national security. The US and China regularly exchange spy charges.
In the most serious cases, persons who are considered guilty of espionage in China may be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. A Chinese engineer was sentenced to death for forwarding graded information to a foreign intelligence service, the Chinese National Security Service had announced in March.