FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet
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Chinese hackers took over a large number of Cisco and Netgear routers and installed backdoors.
Nothing was done about it until the Chinese started attacking US government stuff with them.
At that point the FBI used THEIR backdoor to nuke those Cisco and Netgear routers.
I feel safe now.
(Off to check for updates on my #OpenWRT routers)
https://www.openwrt.org fixes most of this and is #FOSS