Feds Disrupt Botnet Used by Russian APT28 Hackers

Federal law enforcement kicked Russian state hackers off a botnet comprising at least hundreds of home office and small office routers that had been pulled together by a cybercriminal group and co-opted by the state-sponsored spies. APT28, an high-profile advanced persistent threat group linked to Russia’s GRU military intelligence group, used the network of Ubiquiti..

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