{"id":7909,"date":"2026-04-28T09:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/chinese-silk-typhoon-hacker-extradited-to-u-s-over-covid-research-cyberattacks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:12:50","slug":"chinese-silk-typhoon-hacker-extradited-to-u-s-over-covid-research-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/chinese-silk-typhoon-hacker-extradited-to-u-s-over-covid-research-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.\u00a0<br \/>\nXu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies between February 2020 and June 2021, including\u00a0A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.\u00a0<br \/>\nXu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies between February 2020 and June 2021, including\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.\u00a0 Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies between&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/chinese-silk-typhoon-hacker-extradited-to-u-s-over-covid-research-cyberattacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}