Russia’s most complex organization that has carried out cyber attacks in the United States and other countries has been destroyed, the FBI said.
U.S. Department of Justice employees, along with law enforcement partners from Germany, the Netherlands and Britain, have dismantled the infrastructure of the Russian botnet RSOCKS, which has hacked millions of computers around the world. This was announced yesterday by the Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California.
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It was noticed that the RSOCKS botnet, controlled by Russian cybercriminals, was initially targeted at a wide range of devices, in particular, industrial control systems, routers, audio and video streaming devices, smart garage door openers , etc. Subsequently, it extended its destructive action to Android devices and computers.
“The RSOCKS botnet has destroyed millions of devices around the world,” Attorney Randy Grossman said. “Cybercriminals will never escape justice, wherever they work. Together with public and private partners around the world, we will continue to pursue them, using all the tools available to us to eliminate threats and bring out the culprits. to justice. “
According to Special Agent Stacy Moy, the operation by the FBI and the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Division of the Department of Justice “destroyed the most sophisticated Russian organization that has carried out cyberattacks in the United States and abroad.”
Remember that a botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices that are hacked by hackers that are controlled without the owner’s knowledge and are often used for malicious purposes.
Earlier, the United States for the first time announced the conduct of cyber attacks in support of Ukraine. The U.S. military is committing “offensive hacking,” Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency.
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Source: korrespondent
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