US disrupts Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated home, business routers: DOJ

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US disrupts Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated home, business routers: DOJ The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small business routers that were used to carry out cyber operations against countries around the world, including in the U.S. The coordinated law enforcement action with other foreign partners is said to have successfully booted the GRU operators off the routers while locking out their abilities to re-access them, the Justice Department said. The department said it identified a specific malware that the GRU relied on to infiltrate the...