US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more

• Multiple US agencies and departments were breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers
• The hackers use a massive botnet of compromised IoT devices to obscure the origin of their traffic
• The hackers breached computers belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, the Department of Justice, and more

As part of a disclosure into the Justice Department and FBI operations to prevent Chinese threat actors from accessing a malicious botnet and hacking platforms, the US Office of Public Affairs has revealed that the hackers managed to breach computers belonging to multiple US government departments.…

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