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Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed to BNS that the Lithuanian services are investigating this case in communication with international partners.
US officials say Chinese programmers have recently attempted to attack companies that develop vaccines against the new coronavirus.
“The eleven-point indictment states that Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33, who studied computer application technology together at the same Chinese university, have been campaigning to hack computers for more than a decade in countries with high-tech industries, including the United States, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom, “the United States Department of Justice said in a statement .
Valdo Kopūstas / 15min photo / Linas Linkevičius
“Target industries included high-tech manufacturing, medical equipment, civil and industrial engineering, business, education and game programming, solar energy, pharmaceuticals, and defense,” the department said.
Specific Lithuanian companies are not indicated in the notification. The indictment cites an unnamed Lithuanian computer game company, from which 38 gigabytes of data was stolen, including programming data, Java programming language files, and encoding files.
“We have been informed, the responsible services are investigating, we are communicating with the EU, NATO and other partners to avoid such actions,” the minister told BNS on Tuesday night.
Theft of investigation COVID-19
United States Deputy Attorney General John Demers reported that the programmers were also planning cyber attacks against human rights activists in the United States, China and Hong Kong.
The indictment says those programmers have been searching for vulnerabilities in recent months on computer networks owned by companies that are currently developing vaccines and other treatments for the coronavirus COVID-19 infection.
Reuters / Scanpix Photo / Coronavirus
The document lists allegations of theft of trade secrets and fraud by electronic means. According to prosecutors, hackers have stolen information, their knowledge, which should be of interest to the Chinese government.
“China has taken a place alongside Russia, Iran and North Korea in that shameful cybercriminal safe haven club,” Demers said.
The Justice Department said that Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi studied together at an electrical engineering university in Chengdu and that they have been involved in hacking for the past 10 years.
“Recently, defendants have been trying to find vulnerabilities in the computer networks of companies that develop COVID-19 vaccines, testing of technologies and treatments,” the report said.
The indictment does not provide any details to demonstrate that programmers managed to misappropriate any information about the COVID-19 investigation, although efforts have been made to penetrate the systems of biotech companies, including companies in California, Maryland, and Massachusetts. .
Programmers are also accused of stealing the program’s source code from software providers, drug information developed by pharmaceutical companies, as well as weapons projects developed by defense contractors and systems test data.
According to reports, Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi have stolen information about programs from military satellites, military wireless networks, and telecommunications systems, as well as microwave and laser systems.
The accusation was filed in federal court in Washington state earlier this month and was made public Tuesday.
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