The FBI and the Justice Department went after Integrity Tech again on 8 October, US time, seizing domains behind two of the Chinese company's hacking tools. Court documents say a botnet of hijacked internet devices helped power its scanning, and it isn't the first one. Back in 2024, US agencies said the same company ran a botnet of more than 260,000 routers, cameras and other gadgets, and about 2,400 of them were in Australia. If you want the background, we covered the latest action in DOJ and FBI seize Flax Typhoon tools.

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