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#1 CyberScoop general August 26, 2026 at 19:35 UTC

Officials disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies

By Matt Kapko

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U.S. officials disrupted a Chinese government-funded cyber espionage operation that compromised multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Reserve, DOJ, and Senate, using hacking tools that enabled undetected intrusion into highly sensitive networks for over eight years. The FBI seized the full hacking suite associated with the QTFY infrastructure, which provided reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing for Chinese state-backed actors. This is a significant counterintelligence action exposing the long-term depth of Chinese APT access to U.S. government systems.

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