FBI Dismantles Eight-Year Chinese Spy Network That Hit NASA, the Fed, and the Senate

The FBI and DOJ on Wednesday seized the infrastructure behind QTFY, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking-as-a-service operation that has penetrated NASA, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Health and Human Services since at least 2018. Authorities seized three domains powering QScan (an IoT botnet scanner) and QTRouter (an obfuscation network that routed attacks through compromised devices worldwide), effectively...