The US Treasury Department has sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity vendor for allegedly trying to spread malware to approximately 81,000 firewall devices from Sophos. The sanctions target Sichuan Silence Information Technology and one of its employees, Guan Tianfeng, “for their roles in the April 2020 compromise of tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide,” the Treasury Department said in last Tuesday’s announcement. “More than 23,000 of the compromised firewalls were in the United States,” the
