US Government Disrupts Russian GRU Botnet Running on Home and Small Business Routers

The US government recently announced it disrupted a botnet allegedly belonging to Russia’s GRU. Authorities believe the intelligence service used the botnet for malicious operations, including phishing attacks, credential harvesting, spying, and data theft against strategic targets and foreign governments. Over a Thousand Small Business and Home Routers Involved in Botnet The dismantling of the botnet was part of a legally sanctioned operation in January that took down over 1,000 small business