A recent court case in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China has caught Natto Team’s attention because it involves a company that US officials have alleged to be linked with Chinese offensive hacking. This court case is an intellectual property dispute in which the company known as Chengdu 404 – which allegedly stands behind Chinese state hacking operation known as APT41 – sued a company known as Sichuan i-SOON.  The case, which pitted Chengdu Silingsi (404) Network Technology Company (成都市肆零肆网络科技有限公司) as the plaintiff against Sichuan i-SOON Information Technology Company(四川安洵信息技术有限公司) as the defendant, centered on a software development contract dispute. As of this writing, there is no publicly available information about the case, except that it was scheduled to go to trial on October 17, 2023. The existence of this case suggests that Chengdu 404 and Sichuan i-SOON had a business relationship. A look at Sichuan i-SOON adds to our understanding of the ecosystem of IT companies in which Che…