US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more

Multiple US agencies and departments were breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers The hackers use a massive botnet of compromised IoT devices to obscure the origin of their traffic The hackers breached computers belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, the Department of Justice, and more As part of a disclosure into the Justice Department and FBI operations to prevent Chinese threat actors from accessing a malicious botnet and hacking platforms, the US Office of Public Affairs has revealed that the hackers managed to breach computers belonging to multiple US government departments. The disclosure said the victims of “computer intrusion”…