https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/fbi_flax_typhoon_ransomware/?td=rt-3a
9/18/2024
<quote>
China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device
botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them.
The botnet was controlled by the somewhat misnamed Integrity Technology
Group, a Chinese business whose chairman has admitted that for years his company has "collected intelligence and performed reconnaissance for
Chinese government security agencies," FBI Director Christopher Wray
said at the Aspen Digital computer security conference on Wednesday. The internet-connected bots consisted of PCs, servers, and
Internet-of-Things gadgets infected with remote-control malware, and
more than half of which were in the US.
</quote>
more in article.
(maybe we should NOT be having them build those SAME devices - with
SLAVE labor)
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