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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.