The United States and global partners issued an advisory on Thursday, warning about the threat posed by China-backed hackers using online networks of compromised devices to attack governments and organizations.
“These networks are mainly made up of compromised Small Office Home Office (SOHO) routers, as well as … smart devices,” reads the April 23 joint advisory published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The CISA alert was issued jointly with the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) and agencies from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and Sweden.
“The NCSC believes that the majority of China-nexus threat actors are using these networks, that multiple covert networks have been created and are being constantly updated, and that a single covert network could be being used by multiple actors,” the advisory said….