FBI disrupts Chinese botnet by wiping malware from infected routers

The FBI disrupted the KV-botnet operated by China-linked Volt Typhoon, which had hijacked hundreds of SOHO routers and devices (including Netgear, Cisco RV320/325, DrayTek, and Axis cameras) to hide reconnaissance and exploitation of U.S. critical infrastructure; agents used a court-authorized operation to sever connections, remove the malware and VPN components, and agencies now urge vendors to secure and automate updates for end-of-life devices.