USDOJ Charges Chinese AVIC Engineer With Phishing To Hack NASA, FAA & US Military

The US Department of Justice (USDOJ) has indicted a Chinese national for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after he attempted to hack data from multiple US aviation agencies. Song Wu, a 39-year-old engineer employed by Chinese state-owned firm Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), used email phishing tactics to obtain restricted software related to aerospace engineering and computational fluid dynamics.