Government release
Court-Authorized Operation Disrupts Worldwide Botnet Used by People's Republic of China State-Sponsored Hackers
United States Department of Justice, September 18, 2024. Seizure of botnet control, attribution to Integrity Technology Group, French assistance.
- Source type
- Government release
- Published
- September 18, 2024
- Research grade
- P1
- Used in entries
- 6
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- United States Department of Justice
- Published
- September 18, 2024
- Source type
- Government release
- Research grade
- Source grade P1
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Official publication
- Address
- No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.
- What it supports
- Seizure of botnet control, attribution to Integrity Technology Group, French assistance
- Dataset id
- src_doj_raptor_train_2024
Research notes
- URL not re-verified in this pass.
How this source is used
Cited 6 times across 4 record types.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 20, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Takedown records
1 citation
Cited on the takedown record itself.
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Raptor Train botnet disruptionPrimary source
State sponsored, September 2024
Organization roles
2 citations
Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.
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Federal Bureau of InvestigationPrimary source
Operational lead, Raptor Train botnet disruption
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United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of PennsylvaniaPrimary source
Prosecuting, Raptor Train botnet disruption
Infrastructure
2 citations
Cited for infrastructure recorded as acted on.
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more than 200,000 malware installationsPrimary source
Malware installations remediated, Raptor Train botnet disruption
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Command and control serverPrimary source
Command and control server taken over, Raptor Train botnet disruption
Excluded candidates
1 citation
Cited for a candidate event assessed and left out of the index.
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OFAC designation of Integrity Technology GroupPrimary source
Sanctions-only action following the Raptor Train disruption.