""For years, NASA employees and research collaborators thought they were simply sharing software with colleagues. Instead, they were emailing sensitive defense technology to a Chinese national who was impersonating U.S. engineers.""
""Song was an engineer at the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a Chinese state-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate founded in 2008. In an attempt to obtain modeling software used for aerospace design and weapons development, Song and his co-conspirators are alleged to have conducted extensive research on their targets.""
The Office of Inspector General revealed that Song Wu, a Chinese national, posed as a U.S. researcher in a spear-phishing campaign targeting NASA and other organizations. This multi-year operation, from January 2017 to December 2021, involved extensive research on victims, leading to unauthorized sharing of sensitive defense technology. Song, linked to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, has been indicted on multiple counts, including wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, for his role in this scheme that compromised U.S. national security.
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