American Hospital Association September 23, 2024

The FBI, National Security Agency and Cyber National Mission Force last week issued a joint advisory about recent actions of China-linked cyber actors compromising thousands of small or home office routers, firewalls, network-attached storage and other internet devices to create a botnet for malicious activity. The actors, known as Integrity Technology Group, would then use the botnet to conceal their identities while deploying denial of service attacks or attacking targeted U.S. networks. As of June the group’s botnet consisted of more than 260,000 devices, with victim devices located in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia.

“The good news of this story is that the U.S. government and its allies were able to detect and disrupt...

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