Justice Dept.: China-Based Hacker Charged for Conspiring to Develop and Deploy Malware That Exploited Tens of Thousands of Firewalls Worldwide
December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024:
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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 Technology Co. Ltd. to discover and ex . . .
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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 Technology Co. Ltd. to discover and ex . . .