The Italian government has extradited to the United States a Chinese national who was accused of hacking into several American universities to steal COVID-19 research and conducting cyberespionage on behalf of the Chinese communist regime.
In collaboration with FBI agents, Italian police arrested Chinese citizen Xu Zewei at Milan’s Malpensa Airport in July.
In an April 27 statement, Italian police said its International Police Cooperation Service had handed over “a dangerous foreign hacker” to U.S. authorities after completing the extradition process.
The U.S. Justice Department later confirmed that Xu, 34, appeared in court in Houston on April 27.
Xu, along with Zhang Yu, also a Chinese citizen, was charged in a nine-count indictment for his alleged involvement in computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021….