The Justice Department and FBI seized the infrastructure behind two hacking platforms operated by a China state-sponsored group, and the list of named victims includes the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health. The court-authorized domain seizures were announced Wednesday.
Alongside the two health agencies, officials named NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate among those targeted by the group, identified in court documents unsealed in the Southern District of California as QTFY and employed by a Nanjing-based firm, Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company. An FBI and National Security Agency advisory published the same day covers activity dating back to at least 2018.
