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Multi-agency raids, searches, seizures and suspect notifications aimed at disrupting cybercrime and fraud infrastructure.
The DOJ and FBI pulled down two platforms a commentary attributes to Chinese state-sponsored operators. The same piece argues the routers and gateways recruited into those relays are still deployed and still weakly governed.
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A court order killed two Chinese contractor hacking platforms because their command domains were hard-coded into the malware. The pivot hardware they infected is still nobody's asset.
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Prosecutors say a Nanjing contractor rented IoT botnets and commercial proxies to the MSS and PLA from 2018. No individuals were charged, and the conscripted hardware stays conscripted.
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Ukraine's week-long sweep shut 94 impersonation call centres and found 1,794 equipped workstations. The itemised haul is a usable sizing model for anyone tuning fraud detection.
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Unit 42 says the Android TV box botnet now floods over HTTP/2 with full Chrome fingerprints and resolves its command server through the Ethereum Name Service, with Tor as a fallback.
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