
Cyber Attacks
FBI Seizes Flax Typhoon Hacking Tools Linked to Chinese Contractor
Federal authorities disrupted scanning and spear-phishing infrastructure used by the China-linked Flax Typhoon threat group, according to a report by Hackread.
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Federal authorities disrupted scanning and spear-phishing infrastructure used by the China-linked Flax Typhoon threat group, according to a report by Hackread.

Federal prosecutors accuse the firm's founder of defrauding victims by paying attackers to decrypt data while claiming proprietary recovery methods.

US agencies seized domains and blocked infrastructure used by the Beijing-based group to scan and intrude into critical systems.

Federal authorities seized two cyber tools used to scan and attack critical infrastructure networks linked to state-sponsored actors from China.