Foreign spies are trying to steal Australian research. We should be doing more to stop them

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Title	Foreign spies are trying to steal Australian research. We should be doing more to stop them
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.xssvrh3pf
Authors	Walker-Munro, Brendan
Abstract	Australia’s universities face escalating, deliberate efforts from foreign spies who want to steal commercially and militarily valuable research.

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Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	4	57%
Unknown	3	43%

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Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	5	71%
Scientists	1	14%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	14%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2026.

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