PRC using 260k Routers and IoT devices in Spying Botnet

You guys probably all saw this joint advisory from the ACSC a few days ago, what you probably don't know is that the information they obtained and shared came from a successful takedown which took control of 250,000 internet-connected devices that the Chinese government had been using to spy on organisations. An interesting and good writeup can be found here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/china-tech-spy-network/

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