U.S. officials warn of dire Chinese cyber threats in wake of FBI operation to disrupt botnet

[rbc]

The FBI and U.S. Department of Justice used court-endorsed legal authorities to disrupt a botnet operated as part of Chinese-directed hacking operations that leveraged insecure home and office routers to target U.S. critical infrastructure, the DOJ said Wednesday.

A Chinese government hacking campaign, tracked publicly as “Volt Typhoon,” used privately owned Cisco and NetGear routers infected with “KV Botnet” malware in an attempt to conceal the activity, the agency said in a statement. The DOJ and FBI operation, the agency added, “deleted the KV Botnet malware from the routers and took additional steps to sever their connection to the botnet, such as blocking communications with other devices used to control the botnet.”
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U.S. officials warn of dire Chinese cyber threats in wake of FBI operation to disrupt botnet