{"id":131324,"date":"2024-09-19T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131324"},"modified":"2024-09-19T19:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T23:13:43","slug":"dw-fbi-disrupts-major-chinese-hacking-group-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131324","title":{"rendered":"(DW) FBI disrupts major Chinese hacking group, director says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The FBI said on Wednesday that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking group nicknamed &#8220;Flax Typhoon&#8221;&nbsp; that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-warns-of-chinese-hacking-ring-targeting-infrastructure\/a-68138939\">targeted critical infrastructure<\/a>&nbsp;in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Flax Typhoon hackers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cyberwar\/t-38111131\">installed malicious software<\/a>&nbsp;on thousands of computers and other internet-connected devices including cameras, video recorders and routers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This created a botnet \u2014 a massive network of infected computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universities, government agencies, telecommunications providers, media organizations and NGOs were among the targets, the FBI said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Flax Typhoon&#8217;s actions caused real harm to its victims, who had to devote precious time to clean up the mess when they discovered the malware,&#8221; said FBI director Chris Wray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/fbi-disrupts-major-chinese-hacking-group-director-says\/a-70262349\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A hacker group known as Flax Typhoon was able to infect hundreds of thousands of devices around the world, authorities said. China has denied any involvement in the malicious botnet.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FoeAA9IPMg\">https:\/\/t.co\/FoeAA9IPMg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; DW News (@dwnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews\/status\/1836662509031559223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI said on Wednesday that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking group nicknamed &#8220;Flax Typhoon&#8221;&nbsp; that&nbsp;targeted critical infrastructure&nbsp;in the United States. The Flax Typhoon hackers&nbsp;installed malicious software&nbsp;on thousands of computers and other internet-connected devices including cameras, video recorders and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131324\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,151,95,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131327,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131324\/revisions\/131327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}