U.S. Government Disrupts Russian-Linked Botnet Engaged in Cyber Espionage

U.S. Government Disrupts Russian-Linked Botnet Engaged in Cyber Espionage

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The U.S. government on Thursday said it disrupted a botnet comprising hundreds of small office and home office (SOHO) routers in the country that was put to use by the Russia-linked APT28 actor to conceal its malicious activities.
“These crimes included vast spear-phishing and similar credential harvesting campaigns against targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government, such as U.S.

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