US FBI disrupts second Chinese hacking group, director says
WEB1 day ago · 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 Christopher Wray said on ...
FBI director says Chinese spies 'burned down' their botnet
WEB1 day 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 …
WEB1 day 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 ...
U.S. and allies seize control of massive Chinese tech spying …
WEB1 day 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 ...
Vast Chinese Hacking Operation of U.S. Consumer Tech Busted
WEB1 day ago · A stock photo of public surveillance cameras on a pole in the city of Shanghai, China. Nearly half Chinese hacking network Flax Typhoon's targeted compromised devices were located in the U.S ...
Massive China-state IoT botnet went undetected for four …
WEB1 day ago · Researchers and law enforcement track the China-state group that worked with Integrity Technology as Flax Typhoon. More than half of the infected Raptor Train devices were located in North America ...
Justice Department disrupts vast Chinese hacking operation ... - ABC News
WEB2 days ago · The 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 ...
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.
FBI Director Wray reveals details on Flax Typhoon using internet ...
WEB1 day 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 ...
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 ...
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