US government reportedly disabled parts of a botnet-powered cyber campaign conducted by the Chinese threat actor Volt Typhoon.
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China-Linked Volt Typhoon Hackers Possibly Targeting Australian, UK Governments
Chinese APT Volt Typhoon appears engaged in new attacks against government entities in the US, UK, and Australia.
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Chinese APT Volt Typhoon Linked to Unkillable SOHO Router Botnet
Malware hunters have set eyes on an impossible to kill botnet packed with end-of-life SOHO routers and connects it to a Chinese APT targeting US critical infrastructure.
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Mandiant Intelligence Chief Raises Alarm Over China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’ Hackers in US Critical Infrastructure
Mandiant’s Chief analyst urges critical infrastructure defenders to work on finding and removing traces of Volt Typhoon, a Chinese government-backed hacking team caught in a series of eyebrow-raising attacks against targets in Guam and the United States.
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AWS Using MadPot Decoy System to Disrupt APTs, Botnets
AWS says an internal threat intel decoy system called MadPot has successfully trapped nation state-backed APTs like Volt Typhoon and Sandworm.
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