How tech bros became the newest target of Russian and Chinese honeytraps

Tahlia Peterson, who researches global technological competition for the Royal United Services Institute, believes that Beijing has the resources and patience to plant agents as long-term “moles”, spending years working their way up a firm. “China has a vast security apparatus that can be leveraged to that purpose,” she says. “It is likely to happen at lower levels, as junior employees sometimes have more ground-level knowledge, and are more ‘taskable’ as they move their way up.”