FBI Details QTFY Platforms Targeting US Infrastructure Arabian Post

(MENAFN- The Arabian Post) clearfix"> US authorities have warned that a China-linked hacking group built a distributed ecosystem of scanning, exploitation and proxy tools to target government networks and critical infrastructure, while court-authorised action has disabled two central platforms.

The FBI, National Security Agency and US Cyber Command's Cyber National Mission Force said QTFY, also known as QT and QTCYBER, developed purpose-built systems that allowed hackers to identify vulnerable devices at scale, exploit weaknesses and conceal the origin of malicious traffic. The August 26 advisory described activity affecting US and overseas organisations across defence, communications, government, energy, higher education and other sectors.

The Justice Department said investigators seized three internet domains essential to QScan, a vulnerability-scanning and exploitation platform, and QTRouter, an obfuscation network. Because those domains were hard-coded into the malware for communication and authentication, authorities said the seizures rendered both platforms inoperable.

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