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Reuters: FBI hijacks Russian cyber network.

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According to U.S. officials on April 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation hijacked thousands of routers and firewalls from Russian military hackers. This was reportedly a “pre-emptive move” to stop the creation of a “botnet,” a network of computers infected with malicious software and used to barrage other servers with traffic.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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