Chinese botnet Volt Typhoon smashed
The US government announced that it had disrupted the threat actor Volt Typhoon's botnet, which it used to attack critical infrastructure in the United States and other countries. An operation authorized by the American judiciary in December 2023 destroyed a botnet of hundreds of US-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by state-sponsored hackers from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Volt Typhoon attacked critical infrastructure The hackers, known in the private sector as “Volt Typhoon,” used private SOHO routers infected with the “KV Botnet” malware...