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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 entities.The botnet, which was operated by GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as...

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