Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. from Italy

Chinese national Xu Zewei has been extradited to the U.S. and charged in connection with the HAFNIUM/Silk Typhoon campaign, accused of exploiting Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities and deploying web shells to breach U.S. universities, law firms, and COVID-19 researchers on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security; the case highlights state-linked contracting models and international law enforcement cooperation.