Specifically, there's no overlap with China's Volt Typhoon, which also has an affinity for infecting routers, or Russia's Sandworm, aka SeaShell Blizzard, another crew known for destructive attacks.

Specifically, Volt Typhoon was found to have hijacked “hundreds” of small business and home routers based in the U.S. as part of the scheme, according to the FBI. The routers together formed ...

Wray said in a statement, "Volt Typhoon malware enabled China to hide ... manufacturers to eliminate exploitable defects in SOHO router web management interfaces and adjust default device ...

It consisted of several hundred SOHO, or small office and home office, routers in the U.S. The hacking group behind the botnet, Volt Typhoon, used it to disguise malicious network traffic ...

China-linked hackers who broke into global telecommunications systems likely exploited a seven-year-old bug in Cisco’s router software ... called the Salt Typhoon attack by investigators.