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Indiana Federal Tipoffs for Editors Newsletter for 2024-12-13 ( 2 items )  
Justice Dept.: China-Based Hacker Charged for Conspiring to Develop and Deploy Malware That Exploited Tens of Thousands of Firewalls Worldwide (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * A federal court in Hammond, Indiana, unsealed an indictment today charging Guan Tianfeng, a citizen of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for his involvement in a conspiracy to hack indiscriminately into firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Guan and his co-conspirators worked at the offices of Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. Ltd. to discover and exploit a previously-unkno more PR

Justice Dept.: Indiana Woman Sentenced for Racially Motivated Attack Against a Woman of Chinese Descent (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: An Indiana woman was sentenced today to 72 months in prison and three years of supervised release for committing a federal hate crime. On Sept. 17, Billie Davis, 57, pleaded guilty to willfully causing bodily injury to a victim, identified in court papers only by her initials, Z.F., through the use of a dangerous weapon (a knife), because of Z.F.'s actual and perceived race and national or more PR