Ind. U.S. Attorney: China-Based Hacker Charged for Conspiring to Develop and Deploy Malware That Exploited Tens of Thousands of Firewalls Worldwide
December 11, 2024
December 11, 2024
HAMMOND, Indiana, Dec. 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024:
A federal court in Hammond, Indiana, unsealed an indictment today charging Guan Tianfeng, a citizen of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for his 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 Technolo . . .
A federal court in Hammond, Indiana, unsealed an indictment today charging Guan Tianfeng, a citizen of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for his 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 Technolo . . .