Security News > 2024 > February > Chinese hackers fail to rebuild botnet after FBI takedown
Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers failed to revive a botnet recently taken down by the FBI, which was previously used in attacks targeting critical infrastructure across the United States.
After obtaining a court order authorizing it to dismantle the botnet on December 6, FBI agents took control of one of its command-and-control servers and cut off the Chinese hackers' access to the infected devices.
Two days later, Volt Typhoon started scanning the Internet for more vulnerable devices to hijack and rebuild the dismantled botnet.
Despite their concerted efforts, Black Lotus Labs thwarted the Chinese hackers' attempts to revive the botnet by null-routing the attacker's entire C2 and payload server fleet over a month, between December 12 and January 12.
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