FBI director says Chinese spies 'burned down' their botnet
WEB2 days ago · According to an advisory [PDF] issued to coincide with Wray's speech, the Flax Typhoon crew had an SQL database containing details of 1.2 million records on compromised and hijacked devices that they had either previously used or were currently using for the botnet.. Additionally, the botnet used customized Mirai malware to exploit known vulnerabilities in internet-connected devices to ...
US government 'took control' of a botnet run by Chinese …
WEB3 days ago · The Flax Typhoon operation targeted a large number of consumer internet-connected devices. The authorities said they found a database of “over 1.2 million records of compromised devices ...
Justice Department disrupts vast Chinese hacking operation that
WEBThe hacking campaign known as Flax Typhoon installed malicious software on more than 200,000 consumer devices, including cameras, video recorders and home and office routers, to create a massive ...
Justice Department disrupts vast Chinese hacking operation that ...
WEB3 days ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations, Director Chris Wray said Wednesday. The hacking campaign known as Flax Typhoon installed malicious software on more than 200,000 consumer devices, including ...
US Disrupts ‘Raptor Train’ Botnet of Chinese APT Flax Typhoon
WEB2 days ago · The US government has announced the disruption of Raptor Train, a Flax Typhoon botnet powered by hacked consumer devices. By. Eduard Kovacs. September 19, 2024. The US government on Wednesday announced the disruption of a massive botnet created by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The threat actor attempted to use a DDoS attack to protect its ...
U.S. and allies seize control of massive Chinese tech spying …
WEB2 days ago · The operation, which occurred last week, took aim at a botnet known as Flax Typhoon, which U.S. officials said was run by a government contractor in Beijing, a publicly traded company called ...
FBI Director Wray reveals details on Flax Typhoon using internet ...
WEB3 days ago · “Flax Typhoon was targeting critical infrastructure across the U.S. and overseas, everyone from corporations and media organizations to universities to government agencies, and like Volt Typhoon, they used Internet connected devices…to create a botnet that helped them compromise systems and exfiltrate confidential data,” Wray said in a ...
US targets second major Chinese hacking group - Voice of America
WEB3 days ago · It said that as of this past June, the Flax Typhoon botnet was making use of more than 260,000 devices in North America, Europe, Africa and Southeast East. The NSA said almost half of the ...
US FBI disrupts second Chinese hacking group, director says - MSN
WEBWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. law enforcement has disrupted a second major Chinese hacking group nicknamed "Flax Typhoon" and wrested thousands of compromised devices from its grasp, FBI Director ...
Flax Typhoon using legitimate software to quietly access …
WEBAug 24, 2023 · Microsoft has identified a nation-state activity group tracked as Flax Typhoon, based in China, that is targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan with the likely intention of performing espionage.
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