FBI Disrupts Chinese Botnet Infecting Thousands of US Devices

The agency moves against Beijing-backed hackers who infiltrated tens of thousands of cameras, video recorders, and routers.

A member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance, who refused to give his real name, uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at their office in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

Authorities in the United States disrupted a group of Chinese hackers that infiltrated thousands of devices on behalf of China’s communist regime.

A group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers working for Integrity Technology Group, a company based in Beijing and known to the private sector as “Flax Typhoon,” used the infected devices to form a botnet to launch additional attacks, the Justice Department said on Sep. 18.