DOD·Offensive Operations·highCONF 57
USmedium · 35FBI / DOJUS (general)
Court-authorized operation disrupts the Raptor Train botnet used by People's Republic of China actors
Bottom line: the Federal Bureau of Investigation removed malware from roughly 260,000 consumer routers, cameras and storage devices used as attack relay infrastructure by Flax Typhoon. Consumer devices inside United States address space are strategic terrain and are being cleaned by court order.
Automated analysis from cited open sources.
#Flax Typhoon#Botnet takedown#Raptor Train