The United States dismantles a hacking network working for the Russian government

North American Justice believes Russia wants to create a “global spying platform”

The US Department of Justice announced the dismantling of a Russian network that worked to steal confidential American information.

according to statement It was signed by the Attorney General of the United States and is the result of an investigation into cyber campaigns conducted by Russian hackers.

“The Department of Justice is working to accelerate efforts to disrupt the Russian government’s cyber campaigns against the United States and its allies, including Ukraine,” the memo signed by Merrick Garland said.

The topic of discussion was a network of hundreds of home-made routers that were in the service of Russian intelligence and that served to “conceal and enable a series of crimes.”

“These crimes included large-scale phishing operations and similar credential harvesting campaigns against targets of interest to Russian government intelligence services, such as US and foreign governments, military, security and commercial organizations,” adds the statement, which also included attacks against the Ukrainian government. .

The North American court stated that this was a different type of botnet, recalling that other malware networks were already in the service of Russian intelligence, and the goal of the whole operation was to create a “global espionage platform.”