Your home office may have helped China attack critical U.S. infrastructure — here's how

It’s an unintended consequence of the boom in home offices.Federal investigators say they have broken up a vast network of compromised home office routers that had been used by hackers in China to help attack critical infrastructure in the U.S.Officials with the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that they had completed a court-authorized sweep of hundreds of home- and small-office routers around the country that had been infected with a malicious program called the “KV botnet.” Computer-security ...