The president-elect is expected to take a predominantly deregulatory approach to technology, and to aggressively pursue foreign cyber threat actors. He returns to office in a time of international tension in cyber space.

Trump will take a largely deregulatory approach to tech, while aiming to aggressively pursue foreign cyber threat actors.

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity firm, Sichuan Silence, and its employee, Guan Tianfeng, for their roles in a 2020 global firewall breach that targeted critical U.S. infrastructure,

The US has sanctioned Chinese cybersecurity firm Sichuan Silence and its employee, Guan Tianfeng, for a massive cyberattack affecting 80,000 firewalls globally, including critical infrastructure. The April 2020 attack involved ransomware and data exfiltration,