Chinese Intellectual Property Theft a ‘Significant Risk’Security Expert [Video]

Chinese government theft of U.S. intellectual property remains a “significant risk”, with several high-profile cases in recent months, a security analyst has said.

Scott Tosi, an analyst at security consultancy Nisos Intelligence, told Newsweek that infiltration remains a threat in both business and universities.

Targets in recent years have included everything from artificial intelligence to car manufacture, but involve only a tiny fraction of the Chinese-born employees in the U.S. The FBI has been warning of the problem for at least a decade.

“U.S.-employed Chinese national intellectual property theft continues to be a significant risk to both the private sector and academia,” Tosi said.

“As recently as March 2024, the DOJ charged California-based Chinese national Linwei …