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United States officials said Wednesday they disrupted a sweeping Chinese cyber-spying operation that targeted critical American infrastructure entities and could be used against the US in a future geopolitical crisis.
The operation, conducted jointly by the US Department of Justice and the FBI, weeded out malicious Chinese software from a network or “botnet” of hundreds of compromised US routers, both agencies said in a statement.
The US and its key allies disclosed the Chinese campaign, dubbed Volt Typhoon, in May 2023 when analysts at Microsoft found it had targeted everything from US telecommunication networks to transportation hubs.
As state-sponsored hacking becomes an increasingly powerful espionage and foreign policy tool, the United States has scaled up efforts to counter digital intrusion efforts by rivals China and Russia.
