The operators of the Mozi IoT botnet have been taken into custody by Chinese law enforcement authorities. News of the arrest, which originally happened in June, was disclosed by researchers from Netlab, the network research division of Chinese internet security company Qihoo 360. The development also comes less than two weeks after Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center revealed the botnet’s new capabilities that enable it to interfere with the web traffic of infected systems via techniques such as DNS spoofing and HTTP session hijacking.”]
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/chinese-authorities-arrest-hackers.html