Answer:
Economic espionage.
Explanation:
Economic espionage is an activity of unlawfully targeting and spying the sensitive information of corporate or government. The motive behind economic espionage is more than just earning profit, it is much larger in scope and scale. It include theft of critical economic intelligence, trade secret, intellectual property, etc. There are different ways of conducting economic espoinage:
1) Hiring insider of corporate or research institution and getting information on trade secrets etc.
2) By Cyber attack, theft, bribery, etc.
3) Building relationship with corporate or goverment, which seems innocent, however, motive is to gather economic intelligence.
There is Law been passed to protect against economic espionage.
