• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    The article makes it clear that the Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft azure accounts, usually for large organizations involved with governments, infrastructure, legal professionals, science and technology.

    It also states that the attacks can be disinfected by regularly restarting your router, but that this doesn’t prevent reinfection later.

    The US intelligence services also says you should regularly restart your phone.

    This is Microsoft’s posting about it which other news sources are quoting from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/31/chinese-threat-actor-storm-0940-uses-credentials-from-password-spray-attacks-from-a-covert-network/

    It has a recommendations section which suggests “credential hygiene” and strong passwords help.

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      Many experts in the past have noted that most such infected devices can’t survive a reboot because the malware can’t write to their storage. That means periodically rebooting can disinfect the device, although there’s likely nothing stopping reinfection at a later point.

      Relevant line for my lazy chadbros who know that reading articles is for sissies.