Summary
Against the backdrop of FBI Director Christopher Wray testifying to Congress today about the Chinese government threat against American critical infrastructure, CISA puts out warning to secure Small Office Home Office (SOHO) routers. The Chinese threat, Volt Typhoon, has been compromising SOHO routers to coordinate downstream attacks against US critical infrastructure disguising their attacks amongst legitimate traffic coming from these devices. Blacklisting tens of thousands of home office IPs is also an infeasible practice to defend against these coordinated botnet attacks. Article links below.
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