The US Department of Justice claims that it has disrupted a botnet controlled by the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Forest Blizzard, also known as Fancy Bear. The Russian hackers' targets include US and foreign governments, military entities, and security and corporate organizations. The FBI operation copied and deleted stolen files and other data from the compromised routers and, working with local Internet service providers, the FBI then informed the owners and operators of the routers.
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Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers have reported the emergence of a new Mirai botnet variant called MooBot. This variant is looking for unpatched D-Link devices to create its army of DDoS (distributed denial of service) bots. For compromising vulnerable D-Link routers, MooBot uses multiple exploits.
Re-Emergence of Notorious MooBot: The MooBot botnet was first discovered by Qihoo 360’s Netlab in Sep 2019, whereas the most recent wave of attacks involving MooBot, before the one detected b
