Reuters: FBI hijacks Russian cyber network.
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April 7, 2022 5:31 am
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.