Malware broker behind US hacks is now teaching computer skills in China

Yu Pingan had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer hacking. — Reuters

SHANGHAI: A Chinese malware broker who was sentenced in the United States this year for dealing in malicious software linked to major hacks is back at his old workplace: teaching high-school computer courses, including one on Internet security.

Yu Pingan, who spent 18 months in a San Diego, California federal detention centre, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer hacking. A high school instructor, he had been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport in August 2017 upon arriving with a group of teachers to observe a US university. A Reuters reporter found him teaching at his old school here last month.