Hackers from the GRU of Russia infect hundreds of Wi-Fi routers in the United States but were revealed: who was injured

Military units 26165 of the Russian Federation were involved in collecting information through Wi-Fi-routizers. The US Federal Bureau has eliminated the Russian Botnet, which has infected hundreds of home-made Wi-Fi-routers using Moobot software. The agents managed to "clean" the equipment using the same harmful program, the US Department of Justice reported.

According to the US Department of Justice, unknown hackers have installed malicious MOOBOT software (Ubiquiti Edge OS network operating system, installed on Edgerouter routers. It was later revealed that the attack was conducted not without the participation of officials of the military unit 26165 of the Russian Federation (GRU of the Russian Federation - a body of external intelligence of Russia - ed. ).

These game hackers are known as the APT28 group, Fancy Bear, Sopacy Group, Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm. The task of Russian hackers was to re-profiling the network to collect credentials from Wi-Fi-routers. The goals of cybercriminals were people who are "reconnaissance interest to the Russian government. " FBI agents used the malicious Moobot software to copy and remove stolen data and malicious files from broken routers.

To neutralize the access of the game to the router, the rules of the firewall of devices were changed, which made it possible to block access to remote control. The FBI also established a temporary collection of routing information to understand whether the attack is continuing or not. The FBI recommended all the victims to take the following steps to correct the situation: we used to write that hackers were using AI to improve attacks.