U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day in 81,000 Sophos Firewalls
Charges against a Chinese individual for allegedly breaching thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020 were unveiled by the U.S. government on Tuesday.
Allegedly employed at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, Limited, Guan Tianfeng (also known as Gbigmao and Gxiaomao) has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer fraud. Guan is charged with creating and testing a zero-day security flaw that was utilized to carry out the assaults against Sophos firewalls.
Guan Tianfeng is wanted for allegedly participating in a plot to gain unauthorized access to Sophos firewalls, destroy them, and extract and steal data from the computers that run these firewalls as well as the firewalls themselves read more about U.S. Charges Chine...