A new growing reality in Silicon Valley is that Chinese and Russian intelligence operatives are reportedly using attractive women to infiltrate tech companies, seduce employees and steal trade secrets.

In some cases, these operatives marry their targets and have children, securing long-term access to confidential information.

Intelligence experts have dubbed this tactic “sex warfare,” highlighting its rising threat to US technological dominance.

James Mulvenon, chief intelligence officer at Pamir Consulting—an advisory firm specialising in US-China investment risks—has witnessed an increase in such operations.

“I’m receiving an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese women,” Mulvenon told The Times .

“It really seems t

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