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Massive China-state IoT botnet went undetected for four years—until now
75% of infected devices were located in homes and offices in North America and Europe.
OVER 260,000 PWNED — The FBI has dismantled a massive network of compromised devices that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have used for four years to mount attacks on government agencies, telecoms, defense contractors, and other targets in the US and Taiwan. The Chinese hackers, part of a group tracked as Volt Typhoon, used the botnet for more than a year as a platform to deliver exploits that burrowed deep into the networks of targets of interest. "Flax Typhoon was targeting critical infrastructure across the US and overseas, everyone from corporations and media organizations to universities and government agencies," FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday at the Aspen Cyber Summit.
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