Seduction is the new spyware: US tech startups are now the target of "sex warfare"

Foreign intelligence operatives from China and Russia are increasingly using attractive women to seduce American tech workers and steal trade secrets through "sex warfare" tactics. These operations involve operatives building romantic relationships, sometimes even marrying targets and having children, to conduct lifelong intelligence collection. Counterintelligence experts warn this creates a serious vulnerability since US agencies are prohibited from using sexual entrapment by law and culture. China's trade secret theft costs the US an estimated $600 billion annually.