FBI Unearths Alarming Router Infection Linked to Russian Hackers techstory.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from techstory.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nation-state actors are changing their cyber tactics: China's Volt Typhoon and Russia's GRU are engaged in espionage operations, often infiltrating a company's routers, but the countries are also prepositioning for a conflict later.
Russia installed malware on Wi-Fi routers The Boston FBI helped shut it down masslive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from masslive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Justice Department said the botnet used the Moobot malware, which was initially installed by “non-GRU cybercriminals” on Ubiquiti Edge OS routers. Then, the feds say, Russia’s GRU Military Unit 26165, (aka APT28, Fancy Bear, and a few other names), repurposed the network to harvest credentials of “targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government.” The FBI used the same malware to wipe the routers and disable remote access.
The US and its allies have disrupted access by a Russian-state sponsored hacking organisation to “well over a thousand home and small business routers” used for criminal and intelligence purposes, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Feb 15.