Security News > 2024 > September > FBI forced Flax Typhoon to abandon its botnet

A botnet operated by the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Flax Typhoon has been disrupted by the law enforcement agency and abandoned by the group, FBI Director Chris Wray confirmed on Wednesday. “We executed court-authorized operations to take control of the botnet’s infrastructure. When the bad guys realized what was happening, they tried to migrate their bots to new servers and even conducted a distributed denial-of-service attack against us,” he told the audience at … More → The post FBI forced Flax Typhoon to abandon its botnet appeared first on Help Net Security.

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