US Offers $10 Million Bounty for Chinese Hacker Responsible for 2020 Firewall Hacks

The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering up to $10 million for information pinpointing a Chinese national for his role in the April 2020 compromise of tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide.

In 2020, a Ragnarok ransomware campaign exploited a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability in Sophos XG firewalls.

The US State Department is now shedding more light on the events and, importantly, who was involved.

A state-sponsored action

In 2020, Guan Tianfeng and