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The infamous Russian threat actor has created a custom tool called GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 in cyberespionage attacks against targets in Ukraine, Western Europe, and North America.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The FBI and partners from 10 other countries are urging owners of Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to check their gear for signs theyve been hacked and are being used to conceal ongoing malicious operations by Russian state hackers. The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter...

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Six years on, routers remain a favorite post for concealing malicious activities.

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

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

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...

The FBI said it disrupted an attack campaign in January that had compromised small office/home office (SOHO) routers from Ubiquiti.

The feds have disrupted a Russian intelligence SOHO router botnet notable for being built with Moobot malware rather than custom code.