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原文地址：FBI Director Wray says bureau stopped second Chinese hacking group
新闻日期：2024-09-18
美国联邦调查局（FBI）局长韦瑞在阿斯本网络峰会上表示，局方已经成功中断了一个来自中国的黑客团体，并回收了数千台被攻破的设备。韦瑞称，这个黑客团体名为“Flax Typhoon”，由中国的一家名为Integrity Technology Group的公司运营。韦瑞说，这家公司“收集情报并对中国政府的安全机构进行侦察”以掩人耳目，实际上是一家IT公司。FBI试图控制该网络时，黑客发起了DDoS攻击后便放弃，据韦瑞介绍。
韦瑞称，“Flax Typhoon”与之前被称为“Volt Typhoon”的一个黑客团体类似。韦瑞曾在4月表示，“Volt Typhoon”已成功侵入了几家美国的关键基础设施公司，包括电信、能源和供水等企业。
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原文摘要：
The FBI has disrupted a second Chinese hacking group, recovering thousands of compromised devices in what FBI Director Christopher described Wednesday as “just one round in a much longer fight.” Wray spoke at the Aspen Cyber Summit in Washington and said the Chinese hacking group, dubbed “Flax Typhoon,” was being run by a Chinese company called Integrity Technology Group. The company, Wray said, “collected intelligence and performed reconnaissance for Chinese government security agencies” while posing as an IT firm. Wray said Flax Typhoon had routed malicious traffic through a network of hijacked devices called a “a botnet.” In this case, the devices included cameras and digital storage devices that Wray said are typically found across big and small organizations. He said half of the compromised devices were located in the U.S. FBI INVESTIGATION OF TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT INVOLVES ‘FULL FORCE’ OF THE DEPARTMENT, WRAY SAYS As an FBI Cyber Action Team tried to gain control over the botnet, the hackers launched a DDOS cyberattack before abandoning the botnet, according to Wray. Wray said Flax Typhoon operates similarly to a previous hacking group known as “Volt Typhoon,” which was first identified last year and has been an ongoing concern. Wray said in April that Volt Typhoon has embedded itself successfully in several American critical infrastructure companies that include telecommunications, energy and water, and others. FBI MANHUNT FOR BID LADEN DEPUTY PUTS HEAT ON AL QAEDA’S NEXT GENERATION OF TERRORISTS Microsoft and Google security experts have previously linked the Volt Typhoon hackers to China and Wray said the effort is connected to U.S.-Chinese tensions around Taiwan. A Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said earlier this year that Volt Typhoon is part of a criminal ramsonware group and is not related to the government. Wray said that dealing with the Chinese hacking groups remains an ongoing priority for the FBI. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “The Chinese government is going to continue to target your organizations and our critical infrastructure, either by their own hand or concealed through their proxies,” Wray said. Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
