🔴 US Disrupts Chinese State-Sponsored Hacking Tools

The United States on Thursday announced the disruption of two hacking tools used by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors in attacks against US and foreign critical infrastructure.

Built by Integrity Technology Group (Integrity Tech), MicroScan has been used for vulnerability scanning, while FishHub has enabled network intrusions via spear phishing.

Integrity Tech, the US says, used a Mirai malware variant to build an IoT botnet that facilitated MicroScan’s use for reconnaissance against victims’ networks, including a US power company, NGOs, Japanese and Polish airports, and Taiwanese critical infrastructure entities and universities.