Surreptitious malware that was stealing data from U.S and NATO networks for more than two decades has been taken down, officials say.
The Justice Department used a special seizure warrant, known as Rule 41, to remove the Russian malware from U.S. victim computers. | Andrew Harnik/AP PhotoU.S. and international authorities have disabled a piece of advanced malware that Russian intelligence services used to steal secrets from U.S. and NATO countries for more than 20 years, Justice Department officials announced Tuesday.
“This is what we assess to be the most sophisticated malware deployed by the FSB when it comes to espionage campaigns,” the FBI official said.Still, it represented something of a Swiss-army-knife of digital spying, giving Russian spies clandestine access to victim computers, allowing those devices to communicate covertly among each other and acting as a staging point for additional activity from Kremlin spooks.
But U.S. authorities, which have been investigating the malware for more than 10 years, ultimately identified a way to identify and decrypt those communications.
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