Chinese hacker arrested in Italy on U.S. warrant

A 33-year-old Chinese man was arrested on July 3 shortly after arriving at Milan’s Malpensa airport on a warrant from the United States, sources said.

Zewei Xu is wanted by the FBI for allegedly being part of a team of hackers that allegedly carried out espionage operations, particularly in 2020 on anti-COVID vaccines being produced at the University of Texas.

Interior ministry documents said he is also accused of being part of a “large-scale cyber intrusion campaign orchestrated” by the Chinese government known as ‘Hafnium’, which “targeted thousands of computers around the world” to get information on “various U.S. government policies.”

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