US disrupts Chinese hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure, officials say

U.S. officials said on Wednesday they disrupted a sweeping Chinese cyber-spying operation that targeted critical American infrastructure entities and could be used against the United States in a future geopolitical crisis.

The operation, conducted jointly by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, weeded out malicious Chinese software from a network or "botnet" of hundreds of compromised U.S. routers, both agencies said in a statement.

The U.S. and its key allies disclosed the Chinese campaign, dubbed Volt Typhoon, in May 2023 when analysts at Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab found it had targeted everything from U.S. telecommunication networks to transportation hubs.

As state-sponsored hacking becomes an increasingly powerful