A Chinese citizen was allegedly linked to the state-proposed silk typhoon hacking group in Milan, Italy, which was responsible for a cyber attack against American organizations and government agencies.
According to Italian media AnsaThe 33 -year -old man, Joo Zevei, was arrested on 3 July at Malpensa Airport in Milan after flying from China. The Italian police arrested the suspect on an international warrant from the US government.
The ANSA reports that Xu is alleged to have been associated with the Chinese state-propelled silk typhoon hacking group, aka Haphanium, which is responsible for a wide range of cyberpine attacks against the US and other countries.
In particular, the Italian media reports that the Xu 2020 silk typhoon is associated with the cyber attack, which is on infectious disease researchers and healthcare organizations, which was aimed at stealing data on anti -covid vaccines.
“Efforts have been made to identify these actors illegally and obtain public health data related to illegally valuable intellectual property (IP) and public health data related to network, which test from the Covid-19-related research related networks and personnel,” read. , Joint advisor,
The Hacking Group has recently been linked to cyberpayan campaigns, which includes the Committee on Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and foreign investment of the US Treasury.
In March, Microsoft reported that silk typhoon began to target remote management equipment and cloud services in supply chain attacks to gain access to the network of downstream customers.
Xu is currently being held in the Basto Arsaizio Jail, seeking extradition to face trial in states in the US.
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