China is hacking Wi-Fi routers for attack on US electrical grid and water supplies, FBI warns

The article reports that U.S. authorities disrupted a Volt Typhoon (Chinese state-backed) botnet that had been compromising out-of-date NetGear and Cisco routers to conceal operations and pre-position for potential attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure (communications, energy, water, transportation); the FBI and CISA warned of the serious national-security implications and a court-approved operation removed the malware and helped prevent reinfection.