Security News > 2024 > February > U.S. Feds Shut Down China-Linked "KV-Botnet" Targeting SOHO Routers
2024-02-01 11:37
The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by a China-linked state-sponsored threat actor called Volt Typhoon and blunt the impact posed by the hacking campaign. The existence of the botnet, dubbed KV-botnet, was first disclosed by the Black Lotus Labs team at
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