According to industry sources, China and Russia are enticing Silicon Valley workers and obtaining US IT secrets by using female spies.
Pamir Consulting's top intelligence officer, James Mulvenon, told The Times that "foreign seductresses" had recently targeted him. US businesses who invest in China can get risk assessments from Pamir Consulting.

Mulvenon remarked, "The same kind of attractive young Chinese woman is sending me a tonne of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests." "It appears to have increased recently."
Silicon Valley executives who are honeytrapping him Mulvenon claimed that two "attractive Chinese women" attempted to enter a business meeting he was attending in Virginia. He answered, "We didn't let them in." 

According to the seasoned professional, who has spent more than 30 years looking into espionage in the US, the honeytrap strategy poses "a real vulnerability" for the US "because we, by statute and by culture, do not do that." Therefore, in terms of sex warfare, they enjoy an asymmetric edge.
American-married spies
According to some analysts, some female spies marry and have children with Americans, proving that they are not content to just seduce.

He recently investigated the case of a “beautiful” Russian woman who worked at an aerospace business, according to a former counterintelligence officer who now assists Silicon Valley founders in selling off their foreign interests. In the end, this woman wed an American coworker.

She had attended a modelling school in her twenties and then a "Russian soft-power school," he discovered. She then vanished for ten years before resurfacing in the US as a cryptocurrency specialist.

"However, she doesn't remain in cryptocurrency," the former official stated. She aims to reach the pinnacles of the military-space innovation scene. The hubby is completely unaware. "It's really uncomfortable to think about, but it's so common to show up, marry a target, have children with a target, and run a lifelong collection operation," he added. "I would write a book about it if I wanted to be out of the shadows."Additional corporate espionage techniques
According to five counterintelligence experts who talked to The Times, foreign spies are attempting to gain US secrets in a variety of ways, including honeytrapping.

For instance, China is holding competitions for American startups to steal business plans.

In order to make it more difficult to identify American experts, both China and Russia are targeting them with regular people rather than skilled spies. Everyone has been recruited to spy on the US, including academics, businesspeople, and cryptocurrency specialists.

One senior US counterintelligence official stated, "We are no longer pursuing a KGB agent in a smoke-filled guesthouse in Germany." "Our enemies, especially the Chinese, are taking advantage of every facet of our technology and Western talent by employing a whole-of-society strategy."