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US Puts $10 Million Bounty on Chinese Hacker Accused of Stealing COVID Research

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Feed Name: The Cyber Express

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2026-10-08

Date Updated: 2026-10-09

Author: Samiksha Jain

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The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $10 million for information on Zhang Yu, a Chinese national accused of conducting MSS-directed cyber intrusions that stole COVID-19 research from U.S. universities and participated in the HAFNIUM Microsoft Exchange Server campaign; his alleged partner Xu Zewei was arrested and extradited to the U.S., while Zhang remains at large.

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