US Department of JusticePublished
Russian Botnet Disrupted in International Cyber Operation
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Assistant U. S. Attorney Jonathan I. Shapiro (619) 546-8225
NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – June 16, 2022
SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Department of Justice, together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS which hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices around the world.
A botnet is a group of hacked internet-connected devices that are controlled as a group without the owner’s knowledge and typically used for malicious purposes. Every device that is connected to the internet is assigned an Internet Protocol (IP) address.
According to a search warrant…
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