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Ex-Samsung executive charged over plan to clone fab in China (2023)INS-SAMSUNG-XIAN-2023 insider
🇰🇷 KR
aka Choi Jin-seog, Samsung Xi'an copy-fab case
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0attributed CVEs
0ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active
About this actor
Korean prosecutors indicted in June 2023 a former Samsung Electronics executive (later named Choi Jin-seog) for allegedly stealing Samsung's chip-plant blueprints to build a 'copycat' fab in Xi'an, China. Trial proceedings underway as of 2025; no conviction yet.
How we know this
- Data origin
- Curated overlay Insider-threat entry synthesised from public reporting and court filings — not a MITRE-tracked intrusion set.
- Techniques
- No ATT&CK techniques mapped.
- Named victims
- 1 from the curated floor.
Thin data: No ATT&CK techniques are mapped yet — the behavioural profile is empty. Only one named victim is on file.
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Activity timeline
No activity events recorded.
Profile
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No techniques attributed.
Co-occurring actors
None.