CHINA’S HIRED HACKERS WERE INSIDE THE FED, NASA, DOJ, AND THE SENATE — RUNNING SINCE 2018, AND WASHINGTON WON’T SAY WHAT THEY SAW — YOUR KEYS DON’T HAVE A DOMAIN TO SEIZE

The Justice Department and FBI seized three domains behind QScan and QTRouter — the hacking platforms a Chinese state group called QTFY used to get inside the Federal Reserve, NASA, the DOJ itself, the Senate, and three more agencies, with activity running back to at least 2018. QTFY worked for a Nanjing front company whose paying clients included China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army. The government confirmed the break-ins. It will not say what was seen, or for how long. The joint FBI-NSA advisory supplies the scale instead: the scanning tool held more than 200 ready-made exploits, ran over two million scanning tasks in a single day in 2024, and one campaign that May pulled data from more than 300 organizations worldwide. This is the fourth straight year of PRC botnet takedowns. The Maximalist read: the institution that keeps the master ledger of dollar obligations was quietly penetrated for the better part of a decade, and the honest damage report is silence. Bitcoin’s answer is structural, not rhetorical — tens of thousands of nodes, no hard-coded domain to seize, no central ledger to exfiltrate, and keys you hold yourself, one hop away from none of it.