Report: China, Russia deploy honeypots to seduce tech execs, obtain industry secrets

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China and Russia have reportedly sent attractive women to the United States in an attempt to seduce tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation to steal tech and industry secrets.

Citing insiders in Silicon Valley, the Times of London reports that there have been a number of men who have been targeted by foreign women hoping to gain access to industry secrets in tech. James Mulvenon, who is the chief intelligence officer at Pamir Consulting told the outlet, “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman.”

“It really seems to have ramped up recently,” he added. He also talked about how two attractive Chinese women showed up to a business conference in Virginia last week, where they had all the information about the conference and attempted to gain entry. “We didn’t let them in,” he added. “But they had all the information [about the event] and everything else. It is a phenomenon. And I will tell you: it is weird.” more

13 Comments on Report: China, Russia deploy honeypots to seduce tech execs, obtain industry secrets

  1. When they get here have them scooped up at Customs, taken to a Back Room, then be tattooed across their forehead in Day-glow Ink “I have AIDS”, then released. No one other than the Aids Infected Crowd will get within 20 feet of them.

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  2. “Our adversaries — particularly the Chinese — are using a whole-of-society approach to exploit all aspects of our technology and Western talent.”

    And this is different from our CIA how? We’ve got all kinds of people in America bragging about their affiliation with the CIA, how they’re shaping our culture through the schools, through entertainment, through civic organizations etc.

    “China has been hosting start-up competitions in the US in an attempt to steal business ideas and sabotage American companies.”

    Sounds pretty straightforward to me. Where are the honeypots? And how is it that Mr. Mulvenon gets all the honeypot action? I agree, it’s weird, Mr. M.

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  3. Back in the day, late 70’s early 80’s I was still working for other. I was foreman at a company machine shop that produced state of the art avionics packages to the military. The place was a step away from retinal scans to enter. The FBI posted updates on surrounding delis and lunch places to avoid because the suspected Russian assets, women with big cleavage, of being there trying to extract top secret military secrets out of us dumb machinist. What ever. It was aluminum and this long.

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