The malware affected thousands of devices worldwide.
Malware affected devices around the world. Adobe Stock / AOP
The U.S. Department of Justice has reported on a major operation in which U.S. federal police allowed the FBI to cut off a network of Russian military intelligence bots and remove a malware known as Cyclops Bink. News about it Bleeping Computer.
Russia had hijacked thousands of network devices, such as routers and firewalls. The crashed botnet is operated by the Russian hacker group Sandworm, which works for the Russian military intelligence service GRU.
The FBI was allowed to copy and remove the malware from the vulnerable devices. As a result of the operation, the Russian army was prevented from using hijacked equipment to carry out cyber attacks, for example.
This malware is designed to affect Asus and WatchGuard network devices. Asus has brought updates to its devices. You can access the Asus list of models involved from here.