By: Angela Moscaritolo

Foreign spies, including U.S. allies, are increasingly launching digital assaults against the nation to steal sensitive economic secrets, according to a report issued Thursday by the U.S. Office of National Counterintelligence Executive (UNSEX).

The report, which UNSEX prepares for Congress every two years, details industrial espionage and economic information and technology theft between 2009 and 2011. China and Russia were specifically called out as the world's most prolific perpetrators of economic espionage against the United States.

Both countries view themselves as strategic competitors of America, and they carry out such activities to support their own economic development and security, according to the report, compiled with input from at least 13 other U.S. intelligence agencies.

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