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Russian military botnet discovered on 1000+ compromised routers — FBI deactivated Moobot by taking control of impacted
Russia's GRU military intelligence agency infected "well over a thousand" routers with malware
GRU-funded hacking team Fancy Bear has been caught installing Moobot malware on "well over a thousand" unsecured home and business routers using the default admin password as the infection vector, says FBI Director Christopher Wray [h/t The Register]. Moobot was used to create a functional botnet of compromised routers that the GRU and Fancy Bear were using for undisclosed reasons, but the scale of the security breach isn't promising. As simple as the root of the issue was (unsecured default admin passwords), the extent of the Moobot malware infection required some pretty big technical steps from the FBI to remove it as a threat.
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