US Disrupts ‘Raptor Train’ Botnet of Chinese APT Flax Typhoon

The US government has announced the disruption of Raptor Train, a Flax Typhoon botnet powered by hacked consumer devices.
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Chinese Spies Built Massive Botnet of IoT Devices to Target US, Taiwan Military

Black Lotus Labs estimates that more than 200,000 routers, network-attached storage servers, and IP cameras have been ensnared in the botnet.
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FBI joint operation takes down massive Chinese botnet, Wray says

Flax Typhoon targeted critical infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad and compromised hundreds of thousands of devices, the FBI director said.

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A deep dive into the most interesting incident response cases of last year

Kaspersky Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) shares the most interesting IR cases for the year 2023: insider attacks, ToddyCat-like APT, Flax Typhoon and more. Continue reading A deep dive into the most interesting incident response cases of last year

Microsoft: Chinese APT Flax Typhoon uses legit tools for cyber espionage

By Deeba Ahmed
Researchers believe that this time instead of cyber espionage, Chinese threat actors may have opted for more complex information ops.
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Chinese-backed APT ‘Flax Typhoon’ Hacks Taiwan with Minimal Malware Footprint

Microsoft warns that Chinese spies are hacking into Taiwanese organizations with minimal use of malware and by abusing legitimate software.
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