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31 Aug 2026, 3:56 PM	The Hacker News	3.5	DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims The U.S. DoJ corrected its press statement to say agencies like NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the Department of Energy were 'targets' rather than 'victims' of Chinese state-sponsored threat group QTFY, which has been active since 2018 and works for Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Co on behalf of Beijing's MSS. QTFY provides reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing using tools like QScan (vulnerability scanning/exploitation) and QTRouter (obfuscation network), and has targeted hospitals, telecoms, power companies, financial institutions, and defense contractors. Why: The wording correction implies not every targeted organization was actually breached, which matters for builders running infrastructure that could be in similar target categories—especially telcos, hospitals, and financial institutions. If you operate VPN appliances or edge devices exposed to the internet, the QTFY toolkit (QScan for vuln scanning, QTRouter for obfuscation) is a concrete reminder to patch legacy CVEs like CVE-2019-11510 promptly and monitor for reconnaissance activity. security cyber-espionage infrastructure china-attribution

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31 Aug 2026, 3:56 PM

The Hacker News

3.5

DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims

The U.S. DoJ corrected its press statement to say agencies like NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the Department of Energy were 'targets' rather than 'victims' of Chinese state-sponsored threat group QTFY, which has been active since 2018 and works for Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Co on behalf of Beijing's MSS. QTFY provides reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing using tools like QScan (vulnerability scanning/exploitation) and QTRouter (obfuscation network), and has targeted hospitals, telecoms, power companies, financial institutions, and defense contractors.

Why: The wording correction implies not every targeted organization was actually breached, which matters for builders running infrastructure that could be in similar target categories—especially telcos, hospitals, and financial institutions. If you operate VPN appliances or edge devices exposed to the internet, the QTFY toolkit (QScan for vuln scanning, QTRouter for obfuscation) is a concrete reminder to patch legacy CVEs like CVE-2019-11510 promptly and monitor for reconnaissance activity.