The FBI said it was able to remove the malware from hijacked routers by way of a court-sanctioned operation, severing the Chinese hacking group’s connection to the botnet.By January 2025, the U.S.had discovered more than 100 intrusions across the country and its territories linked to Volt Typhoon, according to reporting by Bloomberg.
The hacking group subsequently gained further access to the IT environments of multiple critical infrastructure sectors, including aviation, water, energy, and transportation, pre-positioning for activating future disruptive cyberattacks aimed at slowing the U.S.government’s response to an invasion of its key ally, Taiwan.“This actor is not doing the quiet intelligence collection and theft of secrets that has been the norm in the U.S.
Since the emergence of Volt Typhoon, another new China-backed hacking group called “Salt Typhoon” appeared in the networks of U.S.phone and internet giants, capable of gathering intelligence on Americans — and potential targets of U.S.surveillance — by compromising telecom systems used for law enforcement wiretaps.
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