FBI Seizes Chinese Hacker Platforms That Targeted NASA And The Senate
Federal law enforcement has dismantled a major Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage apparatus that targeted critical infrastructure and key government agencies across the United States for nearly eight years. It also makes us wonder again how these operations were not caught any earlier.
This week, the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI unsealed court orders authorizing the seizure of domains hard-coded into two sophisticated hacking tools: QScan and QTRouter. Developed and operated by a China-based threat group known as QTFY (working under the commercial front of Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company) the platforms were sold as paid hacking services to clients including China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army.
The technical aspect of the operation relied on a dual-stage approach to exploit IoT devices globally. First, the QScan tool systematically scanned the internet to discover vulnerable smart devices, such as security cameras and commercial routers, and automatically infected them....
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