FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrastructure
China’s hacking campaign targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, the Justice Department, and more, according to the DOJ.
The FBI has disrupted the Chinese proxy tools used in the mass hacking of US agencies and infrastructure, according to a recent Department of Justice announcement. The hacking group, identified as QTFY and linked to the Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company, provided customers access to botnets of hacked IoT devices and co-opted commercial proxy services.
The US government claims that QTFY's customers, including the Ministry of State Security and the People's Liberation Army, used these proxy services as relay points to carry out hacking campaigns since 2018. The targeted US agencies include NASA, the US Senate, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and the DOJ itself.
The FBI and Justice Department have disrupted the group's proxy infrastructure by seizing key domains, making it difficult to see the malicious traffic among benign user traffic.
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