Cyclops Blink, a global botnet controlled by the Main Intelligence Directorate
of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the GRU),
has been disrupted by the US Justice Department.
The US Department of Justice has released a statement about a secret FBI operation that removed a bot network controlled by the Russian Federation's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) last month.
Taiwan is tightening its controls over exports to Russia, adding 57 sensitive goods and high-tech items such as PCs and telecom equipment to align with Western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Bureau of Foreign Trade said yesterday.
The latest curbs target items including software and high-tech products that have civilian or military applications to help prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the bureau said in a statement.
“We have held several closed-door meetings with related parties and corporate representatives to assess the impact of the expansion to the controls list over the past month,” bureau spokesman William Liu