FBI Disrupts Chinese Botnet Infecting Thousands of US Devices

Authorities in the United States disrupted a group of Chinese hackers that infiltrated thousands of devices on behalf of China’s communist regime.

A group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers working for Integrity Technology Group, a company based in Beijing and known to the private sector as “Flax Typhoon,” used the infected devices to form a botnet to launch additional attacks, the Justice Department said on Sep. 18.

Malware was installed by the Chinese outfit on some 200,000 consumer devices in the United States and elsewhere. Infected utilities included cameras, video recorders, and home and office routers.

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