The Department of Justice seized two platforms used by Chinese hackers to break into American infrastructure. File Photo by Sascha Steinbach/EPA
Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The Justice Department and FBI announced Wednesday that they seized two platforms used to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks.
The seizures were of two hacking platforms called QScan and QTRouter, which were used to hack U.S. infrastructure sites, the press release said. The affidavit described a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY whose members are employed by China-based Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company that has hacked into NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Senate.
"Federal law enforcement investigated and disabled [China's] malicious software, the latest in a series of technical operations to dismantle indiscriminate hacking activities sponsored by the People's Republic of China," Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.
"These court-authorized seizures deny [China]-linked hackers access to tools they use to mount online attacks against our Nation's critical infrastructure," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg in a statement.
