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US disrupts Chinese botnet targeting critical infrastructure, FBI says

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States disrupted a botnet used by China to conceal hacking of critical infrastructure, a senior FBI official said during a media briefing on Wednesday.

The operation disrupted hundreds of U.S.-based small office or home office routers hijacked by China’s state-sponsored hackers, the official said.

(Reporting by Rami Ayyub in Washington; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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