The US government has neutralized another small office/home office router botnet being used by Russian cyberspies in malware campaigns.
According to a notice from the Department of Justice, a court-authorized operation disrupted a network of hundreds of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers under the control of the notorious APT28 group.
The Justice Department said this botnet was built by cybercriminals using the known 'Moobot' malware and later commandeered by the Russian APT group.
The takedown comes less than a month after law enforcement disrupted a different botnet full of end-of-life Cisco and Netgear routers after researchers warned it was being used by Chinese state-backed hackers as a covert communications channel.
This Cyber News was published on www.securityweek.com. Publication date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:13:03 +0000