FBI-led Operation Medusa kills Russian FSB malware network

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We've linked to the NSA's technical overview of Russia's Snake malware but here's the gist: Snake can infect Windows, Linux, and macOS systems, and use those unwitting network nodes to quietly pass data stolen from victims along to Russian spymasters

"To obfuscate communications between the Snake-compromised computers that comprise the Snake network, the nature of the data stolen by the FSB and the identity of the FSB as the attacker, communications between Snake implants on compromised computers are encrypted, fragmented, and sent using customized methodologies built atop common network protocols," according to US prosecutors in court documents ["As a result, Snake communications are difficult to distinguish from legitimate...

"Through a high-tech operation that turned Russian malware against itself, US law enforcement has neutralized one of Russia's most sophisticated cyber-espionage tools, used for two decades to advance Russia's authoritarian objectives," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in aAccording to the court documents, the FBI had been monitoring the malware's activity on infected computers in America — with their owners' permission, we're told.

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