Chinese national extradited to US for pandemic-era Silk Typhoon attacks

The feed covers multiple high-impact cyber and policy developments: a Chinese national (Xu Zewei) was extradited to the U.S. for allegedly conducting pandemic-era Silk Typhoon/Hafnium espionage targeting COVID-19 research and other policy interests; allied agencies warn China-linked actors are building covert networks using everyday routers; US/UK agencies flagged “Firestarter” malware maintaining persistence on Cisco firewalls long after patches; Vercel’s compromise is widening across customers and third-party systems, raising downstream supply-chain risk; BlackFile (linked to The Com) is ext