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Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU)

The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small busine...

The hackers used default passwords to access internet routers, which they then used to launch "harvesting campaigns" against targets of "intelligence interest" to the Russian government, according to US officials.

The compromised routers belonged to unsuspecting victims “in almost every state,” including New England, according to the FBI and court documents.

The news comes just weeks after the U.S. announced it went on the offensive against a China-linked botnet operation.

The FBI in Boston has helped crack a Russian-backed “Moobot” malware hack intended to steal government and corporate secrets.

Feds once again fix up compromised retail routers under court order.

For the second time this year, U.S. authorities neutralize a botnet of SOHO routers run by nation-state threat actors.

The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small busine...

The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small business routers that were used to carry out cyber operations against countries around the world, including in the U.S. The coordinated law enforcement action with other foreign partners is said to have successfully booted the GRU operators off the routers while locking out their abilities to re-access them, the Justice Department said. The department said