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US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
The Justice Department said that the domain seizures made the botnet and its command and control servers "inoperable," as the domains were hardcoded into the botnet's code and were critical for the botnet's communication and essential operations.
The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets. According to the Justice Department’s statement on Wednesday, the seizures of…
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