FBI DISRUPTS RUSSIAN MILITARY HACKERS, PREVENTING BOTNET AMID UKRAINE WAR

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation wrested control of thousands of routers and firewall appliances away from Russian military hackers by hijacking the very same devices Moscow's spies had been using to set up a "botnet" – a network of hacked computers that can bombard other servers with rogue traffic.

"Fortunately, we were able to disrupt this botnet before it could be used," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said during a news conference.

The FBI conducted the court-authorized operation in March 2022, disrupting a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat actor