{"id":1928701,"date":"2023-05-11T05:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-disrupts-dangerous-russian-malware-doj-announces\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T05:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:58:34","slug":"us-disrupts-dangerous-russian-malware-doj-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-disrupts-dangerous-russian-malware-doj-announces\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ announces US stops Russian malware."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-disrupts-dangerous-russian-malware-doj-announces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1928701&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>US DOJ Disrupts Russian Malware Network<\/h2>\n<p>The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a major victory in the fight against cyberespionage. Through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-disrupts-dangerous-russian-malware-doj-announces\/\" title=\"DOJ announces US stops Russian malware.\">court-approved counterespionage action<\/a>, the DOJ has disrupted a network of malware that Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been using for almost 20 years to spy on and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gao-report-chinas-growing-power-poses-a-significant-challenge-to-the-u-s\/\" title=\"GAO Report: China's Growing Power Poses a 'Significant' Challenge to the U.S.\">steal sensitive information<\/a> from governments and individuals in at least 50 countries, including the United States and other nations in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n<h3>Operation MEDUSA<\/h3>\n<p>The code name for the U.S. government operation is Operation MEDUSA. The DOJ used a cybertool called \u201cPERSEUS,\u201d developed by the FBI, which essentially commanded the Russian malware \u201cSnake\u201d to disable itself by overwriting its own critical and essential components. U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollak of the Eastern District of New York signed off on the search warrant, which allowed the Biden administration to domestically launch Operation MEDUSA and employ PERSEUS to counterattack the Russian malware.<\/p>\n<h3>Attorney General Merrick Garland Speaks Out<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe Justice Department, together with our international partners, has dismantled a global network of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-corrupted-long-standing-russian-hacking-malware\/\" title=\"FBI found Russian malware used for hacking, corrupt.\">malware-infected computers<\/a> that the Russian government has used for nearly two decades to conduct cyberespionage, including against our NATO allies,\u201d said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. \u201cWe will continue to strengthen our collective defenses against the Russian regime\u2019s destabilizing efforts to undermine the security of the United States and our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael J. Driscoll, assistant director in charge of the FBI\u2019s New York field office, added: \u201cThe operation we announced today successfully disrupted the foremost cyberespionage tool of the Russian government. For two decades, the malware allowed Russian Intelligence to compromise computer systems and steal sensitive information\u2014harming not only the United States Government and our allies but also private sector organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Russian Cyberaggression<\/h3>\n<p>Cyberespionage and attacks are a fundamental tool of the Russian government. It uses them to steal intelligence from and attack public and private computers and networks, deny service and access to information, damage electronic infrastructure, disrupt state alliances, spread disinformation, and stifle and subdue political and social activity. Russia partners with cybercriminals and cybergangs to conduct cyberaggression. Russian propaganda outlets encourage cyberattacks against entities they deem as enemies of Russia. In its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has deployed extensive cyberattacks but with limited success.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US DOJ disrupts Russian malware network<\/li>\n<li>Operation MEDUSA uses cybertool PERSEUS to counterattack Russian malware<\/li>\n<li>Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks out against Russian cyberespionage<\/li>\n<li>Russian cyberaggression is a fundamental tool of the government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on May 9 that through a court-approved counterespionage action, it has disrupted a network of malware that Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the former Soviet Union\u2019s KGB, inserted into computer systems. The malware has been used for almost 20 years to spy on and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1640,"featured_media":1928702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4156,7076,24086,3965,6395],"class_list":["post-1928701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-announces","tag-doj","tag-malware","tag-russian","tag-stops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}