{"id":886641,"date":"2024-12-11T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T05:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=886641"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T05:28:14","slug":"us-sanctions-chinese-cybersecurity-company-linked-to-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/11\/us-sanctions-chinese-cybersecurity-company-linked-to-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity company linked to ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has imposed sanctions on a Chinese cybersecurity firm, Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, for orchestrating a large-scale cyberattack. According to a Reuters report, the attack, US officials said could have resulted in fatalities. A statement from the US Treasury Department says that the Chengdu-based company and one of its employees, Guan Tianfeng, deployed malicious software in April 2020 to compromise over 80,000 firewalls across thousands of companies globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has imposed sanctions on a Chinese cybersecurity firm, Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, for orchestrating a large-scale cyberattack. According to a Reuters report, the attack, US officials said could have resulted in fatalities. A statement from the US Treasury Department says that the Chengdu-based company and one of its employees, Guan Tianfeng, deployed malicious software in April 2020 to compromise over 80,000 firewalls across thousands of companies globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}