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Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them

reader comments 79 with 42 posters participating Share this story The FBI remotely accessed and disinfected US-located devices running a powerful new strain of Russian state botnet malware, federal authorities said Wednesday. Those authorities added that the Kremlin was using the malware to wage stealthy hacks of its adversaries. The infected devices were primarily made… Read More »

Russia’s most cutthroat hackers infect network devices with new botnet malware

Getty Images reader comments 73 with 39 posters participating, including story author Share this story Hackers for one of Russia’s most elite and brazen spy agencies have infected home and small-office network devices around the world with a previously unseen malware that turns them into attack platforms that can steal confidential data and target other… Read More »