Security News > 2024 > February > U.S. Government Disrupts Russia-Linked Botnet Engaged in Cyber Espionage
2024-02-16 06:49
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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