Federal authorities disrupt China-backed hacking operation targeting US critical infrastructure

How China industrialized the infrastructure behind state hacking

Last week, the US Justice Department and FBI announced court-authorized seizures of domains hard-coded into two complementary hacking platforms known as “QScan” and “QTRouter,” used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to target US critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks. A People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored group known as “QTFY,” employed by a corporation called China-based Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company, …

Federal authorities disrupt China-backed hacking operation targeting US critical infrastructure

Compromised IoT devices were used in a yearslong campaign against key sectors and federal agencies.

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The quartermaster model of hacking For a year prior to the takedown, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs tracked QTFY as it functioned as a “quartermaster,” integrating reconnaissance, proxy orchestration, and operational routing into “a reusable service layer, enabling malicious actors to validate access routes and mask their activities using shared infrastructure.” “We were able to see […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed! The post How China ind…