Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan

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A China-linked hacking group, dubbed BlackTech, is compromising routers in the US and Japan, secretly modifying their firmware and moving around company networks, according to a warning issued by cybersecurity officials this week. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the NSA, FBI, and Japan’s National Police Agency and cybersecurity office issued the joint alert saying the BlackTech group was “hiding in router firmware.”

The officials said they had seen the Chinese-linked actors using their access to the routers to move from “global subsidiary…