Italy extradites Chinese 'hacker' to the United States
Coronavirus
Italy has extradited a 33-year-old Chinese man arrested at Milan's Malpensa airport in July 2025 on a US warrant for alleged hacking and espionage on COVID vaccines and therapies, sources said. According to the FBI, Zewei Xu was part of a team that allegedly obtained information on COVID-19 research, especially from the University of Texas, starting in February 2020 at the start the outbreak of the pandemic. Xu is accused of being part of "a large-scale cyber intrusion campaign" by the
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