U.S. Government Indicts Chinese National For Alleged Spear Phishing Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Chinese national Song Wu, allegedly an AVIC employee, for a multi-year spear-phishing campaign that impersonated U.S.-based researchers to obtain specialized aerospace engineering and computational fluid dynamics software and source code from U.S. military and government entities, research universities, and private aerospace firms; the DOJ characterizes the operation as state-linked cyberespionage.