Foreign spy honeytraps targeting Americas tech elite spark alarm amid Nvidia CEO scandal

American tech executives are facing escalated and systematic campaigns by foreign intelligence services using a variety of spy tactics to get the upper hand, including "honeytraps," to infiltrate U.S.expert controls, supply chains and other intelligence, experts say.The warning comes amid reports revealing NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital relationship with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom U.S.

intelligence identified as a Chinese intelligence asset operating under corporate cover.Foreign espionage operations targeting high-profile tech figures are not isolated incidents but reflect an ongoing, long-term threat designed to exploit business environments, former National Security Agency analyst and corporate cybersecurity expert Ira Winkler told Fox News Digital.REBECCA GRANT: JENSEN HUANG OWES AMERICA AN APOLOGY, AND NVIDIA OWES INVESTORS ANSWERSNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has pushed the Trump administration to ease restrictions on advanced AI chip sales to China, making the company’s technology a focal point in the U.S.-China race for AI leadership.(Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images)"In this case, this is what the honey trap was, where they used sex, apparently, as the way to establish a relationship that was apparently not necessarily coercion, but did maintain long-term access and play to the person's ego," Winkler said.

"These types of cases have gone on over the last few decades and arguably since the days of Samson, if you want to get biblical on how long honey pots have been around."Unlike traditional covert intelligence operations, foreign adversaries routinely target tech executives through legitimate business settings when their defenses are lowered, Winkler said."Tech events are prime targets, where people can go ahead and meet other people who might potentially have access," Winkler explained.US ATTORNEY WARNS CHINESE ESPIONAGE IS 'EXTREMELY PERVASIVE,' SAYS BEIJING 'PLAYING THE LONG GAME'U.S.President Donald Trump (L) greets Vice Presiden...