US posts $10 million reward for accused Chinese ‘Hafnium’ hacker

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Arizona courtsCISAChina-linked threat actorHafniumcritical infrastructurecyber espionagecyber policydata breachdigital evidenceoperational technologypersonally identifiable information

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The feed highlights a U.S. $10 million reward for Zhang Yu, described by officials as a prominent participant in the China-linked Hafnium campaign that breached thousands of systems and stole large volumes of documents. It also reports a major Arizona courts data breach affecting more than 1.3 million people, alongside policy and legal developments concerning cyber workforce mental health, operational technology security requirements, and digital evidence. The primary actionable threat intelligence concerns Hafnium-linked espionage and the Arizona courts breach; the provided summaries do not,4

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