The charges against them are published amid growing concerns that foreign states may be compromising US security by recruiting intelligence personnel to bolster their own capabilities.
The men, named as Marc Baier, Ryan Adams, and Daniel Gericke in an unsealed court document, were accused of breaking computer crime laws and export controls and have agreed to pay more than $1.6m as part of a deferred prosecution agreement.According to the court document, after leaving US government employment, the three men worked for an American company that provided licensed services to the UAE.
But in January 2016,"after receiving an offer for higher compensation and an expanded budget", the men left this company and joined a new one called Dark Matter based in the gulf state.The clandestine unit helped the UAE spy on human rights activists, journalists, and rival governments, according to Reuters, which reported on the clandestine unit called Project Maven before these charges were made public.
While working for the UAE business, which did not have an export licence to receive hacking technology from the US, the men developed"two similar 'zero-click' computer hacking and intelligence gathering systems" that were used to target victims in America.
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