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Chinese man charged in US with developing, exploiting malware

( December 10, 2024, 18:32 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A US court in Indiana unsealed an indictment charging Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese man, over his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to hack indiscriminately into firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Guan and his co-conspirators worked at the offices of Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. Ltd. to discover and exploit a previously unknown “Zero-day” vulnerability in certain firewalls sold by UK-based Sophos Ltd., an information technology company that develops and markets cybersecurity products, prosecutors said. Guan and his co-conspirators infected approximately 81,000 firewall devices worldwide, prosecutors alleged.Statement follows below. Indictment attached....

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