The American Justice Department has confirmed the arrest by Chinese National Xu Zewei, an alleged fertile contract hacker, who carried out cyber attacks for China. Xu was arrested in Italy at the request of US prosecutors.
Xu and another Chinese National Zhang Yu, which remains generally, are charged in nine-load charge About “hacking and stealing Crossroads from Covid-19” from US universities during February 2020. The DOJ said that Xu worked for a company called Shanghai Powerock network that conducted hacking operations for the Chinese government.
The alleged hackers are also charged with the massive hacks of Microsoft Exchange -servers beginning in March 2021. The hackers, publicly mentioned As a group called hafniumbroke into more than 60,000 self-hosted exchange servers managed by Mostly small businesses Across the United States, allowing the theft of private corporate mail and address books.
Hafnium has since launched a new hack campaign called Silk typhoonWhat researchers say it is known for hacking in large companies and government agencies.
