U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day in 81,000 Sophos Firewalls

The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan Tianfeng aka gbigmao and gxiaomao, who is said to have worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, Limited, has been...

WannaCry Kill Switch Hero Faces New Charges, But Code Evals Say Little

A fresh FBI charge against Marcus Hutchins has led to the Kronos banking trojan and the UPAS Kit backdoor being linked in the news over the past week. However, a fresh analysis this week shows that, at least on a code level, the similarities and differences between the two are far from conclusive...