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Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) (www.justice.gov)

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Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU)::A January 2024 court-authorized operation has neutralized a network of hundreds of small office/home office (SOHO) routers that GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as APT 28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and Sednit, used to conceal and otherwise enable a variety of crimes. These crimes included vast spearphishing and similar credential harvesting campaigns against targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government, such as U.S. and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. In recent months, allegations of Unit 26165 activity of this type has been the subject of a private sector cybersecurity advisory and a Ukrainian government warning.

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[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s a lot of words to say the government broke into your home and business routers and did something, but they specifically claim they removed malware. I’m assuming they would’ve had to somehow reset peoples passwords too.

Be super comfortable with your government just casually breaking into your shit whenever they want for the “security of the nation”

Shut up and take it.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They broke into shit that had already been broken in to, and removed an intrusion. That's literally their job.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub -3 points 9 months ago

No, it’s literally not. Please point to some source for your claim.