U.S. Government Disrupts Botnet Used by Russian GRU Hackers

The Justice Department on Thursday announced that it has disrupted a botnet operated by Russia's GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as APT28.

The DoJ said that during a January operation it was able to neutralize the malware network made up of hundreds of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers. These small office/home office (SOHO) routers were being leveraged by APT28 in order to enable and hide various spearphishing and credential harvesting attacks launched against U.S. government officials and military, security and …

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