Also in September, the FBI revealed that international cops disrupted a 260,000-device botnet controlled by a different ...

After extensive investigating, Horka's team followed a digital trail of breadcrumbs that led back to China, specifically a group known as Flax Typhoon. Ultimately, the botnet's activities were ...

Later in September, the feds hijacked a botnet run by another Chinese hacking group called “Flax Typhoon,” which masquerades as a private company in Beijing and whose role was to help conceal ...

Flax Typhoon has a history of sophisticated cyberattacks. In this case, the botnet leverages the Mirai malware family, targeting devices with known vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems.

The group, known as Flax Typhoon, installed malware on more than 200,000 consumer devices – ranging from cameras to home and office routers – forming a vast botnet used for cybercrimes, including ...

The botnet was used to facilitate cyber crimes, such as the theft of sensitive information from victims' networks. “Flax Typhoon’s actions caused real harm to its victims, who had to devote ...

The botnet, according to the advisory ... of hackers used it to launch the most powerful distributed denial-of-service attacks at the time. The Flax Typhoon operation targeted a large number of ...

Later in September, the feds hijacked a botnet run by another Chinese hacking group called “Flax Typhoon,” which masquerades as a private company in Beijing and whose role was to help conceal ...

In January, the U.S. disrupted "Volt Typhoon," a group of Chinese government hackers tasked with setting the stage for destructive cyberattacks. Later in September, the feds hijacked a botnet run by ...