The US DOJ says RSocks, a Russian botnet used to hijack millions of devices worldwide for use as proxy servers, was disrupted in an international operation
Hello and welcome to Protocol Enterprise! Dan Robinson / The Register : International operation takes down Russian RSOCKS botnet Tweets: @fbisandiego : Russian Botnet Disrupted in International Cyber Operation: The U.S. Department of Justice, along with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet. https://www.fbi.gov/... Andrew Thompson / @imposecost : “At three of the victim locations, with consent, investigators replaced the compromised devices with government-controlled computers (i.e., honeypots), and all three were subsequently compromised by RSOCKS.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...