SINGAPORE — A man engaged three foreign hackers to come to Singapore to probe «sites of interest» for vulnerabilities, conduct penetration attacks and obtain personal information from the exploited systems.Police arrested the trio — Chinese nationals Yan Peijian, Liu Yuqi and Huang Qin Zheng — in an operation in September 2024, and they were linked to an organised criminal group.Yan's laptop was later found to contain messages discussing vulnerable domains, which included five Australian, Argentinian and Vietnamese government sites.Liu's laptop contained a confidential e-mail between officers of Kazakhstan's ministries of foreign affairs and industry and infrastructure development.The prosecution said that Vanuatu citizen Xu Liangbiao, 38, had earlier engaged the trio, but he left Singapore on Aug 14, 2023, a day before the Singapore authorities arrested offenders linked to the $3 billion money-laundering case. His current whereabouts are unknown. Read more