The FBI conducted a joint operation last week to take down a massive Chinese state-sponsored botnet that the attackers used to compromise hundreds of thousands of devices, target U.S. and overseas critical infrastructure and steal data, Director Chris Wray said Wednesday.
The group behind the botnet, Flax Typhoon, hijacked routers and Internet of Things devices like cameras, video recorders and storage devices, Wray said at the Aspen Cyber Summit — a step beyond the much-hyped operations of fellow Chinese hackers Volt Typhoon that had focused on routers. The targets included corporations, media organizations, universities and government agencies.
“Flax Typhoon’s actions caused real harm to its victims,” he said. “Working in collaboration with our partners, we executed court-authorized operations to take control of the botnet’s infrastructure.
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The group behind the botnet, Flax Typhoon, hijacked routers and Internet of Things devices like cameras, video recorders and storage devices, Wray said at the Aspen Cyber Summit — a step beyond the much-hyped operations of fellow Chinese hackers Volt Typhoon that had focused on routers. The targets included corporations, media organizations, universities and government agencies.
“Flax Typhoon’s actions caused real harm to its victims,” he said. “Working in collaboration with our partners, we executed court-authorized operations to take control of the botnet’s infrastructure.
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