U.S. sanctions take aim at Chinese company said to aid hackers’ massive botnet

The U.S. sanctioned Integrity Technology Group after linking the company’s infrastructure to Flax Typhoon, a PRC-linked hacking group that operated a botnet infecting hundreds of thousands of IoT devices; the article details the group's exploitation activity between summer 2022 and fall 2023, a prior multinational takedown, and coordinated U.S. government actions including advisories and sanctions to disrupt the threat.