FBI Shut Down Russia-linked "Cyclops Blink" Botnet That Infected Thousands of Devices

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that it neutralized Cyclops Blink, a modular botnet controlled by a threat actor known as Sandworm, which has been attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU).
"The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used

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