FBI says it has disrupted major Chinese hacking operation [Video]

The FBI has used a court order to seize control of a network of hundreds of thousands of hacked internet routers and other devices that Chinese government-linked hackers were using to threaten critical infrastructure in the U.S. and overseas, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.“It is just one round in a much longer fight,” Wray said in a speech at the Aspen Cyber Summit in Washington, D.C. “The Chinese government is going to continue to target your organizations and our critical infrastructure.”The massive web of hacked devices — known as a botnet — was a menace that the Chinese hackers could have used to conduct targeted cyberattacks on U.S. companies or government agencies, according to an advisory released by the U.S. and its “Five Eyes” allies (the English-speaking alliance that includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom). As of June, the botnet included over 260,000 hacked devices from …