"Flax Typhoon's actions caused real harm to its victims, who had to devote precious time to clean up the mess when they discovered the malware," said FBI director Chris Wray.

U.S. law enforcement has disrupted a second major Chinese hacking group nicknamed "Flax Typhoon" and wrested thousands of compromised devices from its grasp, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on ...

Flax Typhoon’s activities were first reported by Microsoft, which noted an increase... FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during an Election Threats Task Force meeting at the Justice ...

Flax Typhoon, first outed by Microsoft several months later in an August 2023 report, is another China-backed hacking group, which officials say has operated under the guise of a publicly traded ...

Citing “interior ministry documents”, ANSA said Xu is accused of being part of Hafnium, an infamous state-sponsored threat actor also known as Silk Typhoon. With this group, Xu allegedly “targeted ...

Brett Leatherman told CyberScoop in an interview that while the group still poses a threat, the bureau is focused on ...

The FBI, NSA and other U.S. government agencies detailed a Chinese-government operation that used 260,000 of internet-connected devices to launch cyberattacks. ... dubbed Flax Typhoon, ...

More than 260,000 devices were compromised for a botnet operated by Flax Typhoon, according to an advisory from the National Security Agency, U.S. Cyber Command, the FBI and allied nations ...

Integrity Tech — known colloquially by cybersecurity researchers as Flax Typhoon — was disrupted in a previous FBI takedown operation that dismantled a nexus of compromised cameras, routers ...

From the wording of the FBI’s announcement, the $10 million bounty reward stretches beyond Salt Typhoon and into other hacking groups that attacked US critical infrastructure firms.

The two primary vulnerabilities exploited in that campaign were CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273, both of which had received patches more than a year before Salt Typhoon exploited them. The FBI ...

Salt Typhoon hit headlines in October 2024 for a different kind of information-gathering operation. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the China-linked hacking group compromised several ...