Federal Authorities Disrupt China-Backed Hacking Operation Targeting US Critical Infrastructure
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Cybersecurity returns to the center of the strategic confrontation between the United States and China. Within a few hours the FBI announced that it had dismantled a large hacking operation attributed to...
The FBI and the Department of Justice have dismantled a Chinese espionage operation against active U.S. critical infrastructure since 2018. The operation, attributed to the group known as QTFY, compromised the networks of the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, the Federal Reserve, NASA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and, without success, the Senate in March. The group also targeted financial ent…
FBI Seizes Domains Used by China-Backed QTFY Botnet Targeting U.S. Networks
The FBI has seized a series of domains used by the China-linked QTFY botnet, disrupting infrastructure that U.S. prosecutors say supported cyberattacks against hospitals, defense contractors, federal agencies, and other American targets. The Justice Department said the seizures made the botnet’s command-and-control infrastructure inoperable because the domains were hardcoded into its software. According to the Justice Department’s official annou…
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