‘We’re defending our homeland’: FBI remotely scrubs Russian malware from thousands of compromised devices – series of FBI engineered commands sent to compromised home and small office routers disrupted GRU botnet targeting military, government, and critical infrastructure
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The FBI used court-authorization to remotely reset thousands of compromised home and small office routers, kicking the GRU out of sensitive networks.
  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I had a friend who would do that as a prank. He’d drive around with a laptop and change people’s wifi password then listen for them to start bitching about the wifi not working. It was a simpler time.