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The five cyber threats described below reflect how attackers are getting more efficient at exploiting identities, cloud infrastructures and third-party relationships

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

A court-authorized FBI operation has taken down a network of hundreds of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers worldwide infected by a known malware called Mooboot. The malware worked...

Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet, and 100 hospitals in Romania go offline amid a major ransomware attack.

The US and its allies have effectively thwarted a Russian-state-sponsored hacking organization's access to thousands of home and small business routers.

Nation-state hackers including Russian military intelligence and hackers backed by China have used OpenAI large language models for research and to craft phishing

The Justice Department said the botnet used the Moobot malware, which was initially installed by “non-GRU cybercriminals” on Ubiquiti Edge OS routers. Then, the feds say, Russia’s GRU Military Unit 26165, (aka APT28, Fancy Bear, and a few other names), repurposed the network to harvest credentials of “targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government.” The FBI used the same malware to wipe the routers and disable remote access.

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.

BOSTON: MICROSOFT SAID on Wednesday that United States (US) adversaries – chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China – are beginning to use its generative artificial intelligence (AI) to mount or organise offensive cyber...

The US and its allies have disrupted access by a Russian-state sponsored hacking organisation to “well over a thousand home and small business routers” used for criminal and intelligence purposes, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Feb 15.