FBI disrupts Russian military hackers, preventing botnet amid Ukraine war
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation wrested control of thousands of routers and firewall appliances away from Russian military hackers by hijacking the very same devices Moscow's spies had been using to set up a “botnet” – a network of hacked computers that can bombard other servers with rogue traffic.
The FBI conducted the court-authorized operation in March 2022, disrupting a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat actor known as Sandworm, which the U.S. government previously attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the GRU), the Justice Department announced in a statement.
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