The September 2024 dismantling of the Flax Typhoon botnet — a campaign involving 200,000 devices targeting U.S. and global critical infrastructure — demonstrates how the government can protect ...

Then in September 2023, the U.S. government said it had taken control of another botnet, which was made up of hundreds of thousands of hijacked internet-connected devices, and used by Flax Typhoon ...

In September 2024, the US Department of Justice announced that it disrupted a botnet attack on more than 200,000 consumer devices infected with malware by Flax Typhoon.

A few months before shutting down Flax Typhoon’s botnet, U.S. authorities disrupted another botnet created by Chinese state-backed hackers. It consisted of several hundred SOHO, ...

The operation, dubbed “Flax Typhoon,” is one of multiple alleged hacking efforts by Chinese-affiliated cyber actors to infiltrate U.S. data and infrastructure in recent months.

The Treasury Department says Integrity Tech operated Flax Typhoon's botnet—a network of at least 260,000 compromised devices that helped the attackers hide their identities.

The sanctions land months after the U.S. government accused Integrity Technology, also known as Yongxin Zhicheng, of running a botnet associated with the Flax Typhoon hacking group. The botnet ...

The federal government hit Chinese cyber group Integrity Technology Group with new sanctions on Friday, citing alleged computer intrusion incidents against those in the U.S. At the direction of ...

The federal government hit Chinese cyber group Integrity Technology Group with new sanctions on Friday, citing alleged computer intrusion incidents against those in the U.S. At the direction of the ...

The U.S. government has sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a China government-backed hacking group, tracked as Flax Typhoon. The Treasury Department’s ...