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FBI disrupts Chinese botnet used for targeting US critical infrastructure  The FBI has disrupted the KV botnet, used by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored hackers (aka “Volt Typhoon”) to target US-based critical infrastructure organizations. The threat actors used the KV botnet malware to hijack hundreds of US-based, privately-owned small office/home office (SOHO) routers and to hide their hacking activity towards “US and other foreign victims”. “The Volt Typhoon malware enabled China to hide, among other things,…