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FBI Takes Control of APT28's VPNFilter Botnet
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-takes-control-of-apt28s-vpnfilter-botnet/
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has obtained court orders and has taken control of the command and control servers of a massive botnet of over 500,000 devices, known as the VPNFilter botnet.
The existence of this massive threat came to light yesterday when Cisco Talos published a report about VPNFilter infecting over 500,000 routers and NAS devices across the world.
FBI Takes Control of APT28's VPNFilter Botnet
May 24, 2018, 11:23am UTC
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-takes-control-of-apt28s-vpnfilter-botnet/
> The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has obtained court orders and has taken control of the command and control servers of a massive botnet of over 500,000 devices, known as the VPNFilter botnet.
> The existence of this massive threat came to light yesterday when Cisco Talos published a report about VPNFilter infecting over 500,000 routers and NAS devices across the world.