US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more
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State-backed actors using botnets to mask traffic across Justice, NASA, the Fed, and the Senate is a reminder that your telemetry is now the attack surface, not just your endpoints. Treat large, noisy infrastructure — VPNs, CDNs, automation fleets — as potential cover for adversaries and tighten anomaly detection around “normal” high-volume flows.
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