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

U.S. takes down Russian botnet of routers. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Friday, February 16th, 2024. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. American authorities have neutralized a botnet of hundreds of compromised small and home office routers that Russia's military cyber unit used for attacks. This

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

The Justice Department announced today that it has successfully conducted a court-authorized operation to neutralize a botnet controlled by the Russian Federation's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU). The operation targeted a network of small office/home office (SOHO) routers that were used by the GRU to carry out various cybercrimes, including spearphishing and credential harvesting campaigns against U.S. and foreign governments, military organizations, and corporate e...

A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords.

DoJ boots Fancy Bear out of hundreds of routers

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

BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft said Wednesday that U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use its generative

Threat actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have all been probing use cases for generative AI service ChatGPT, but have yet to use such tools in a full-blown cyber attack

Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, and Wednesdays announcement coincided with its release of a report noting that generative AI is expected to enhance malicious social engineering, leading to more sophisticated deepfakes and voice cloning . A threat to democracy in a year where over 50 countries will conduct elections, magnifying disinformation and already occurring,