FBI and DOJ dismantle Russian cyber operations targeting allies and governments.
The FBI disrupted a Russian government-controlled malware network called Snake that compromised hundreds of computers belonging to NATO-member governments and other Russian targets of interest, including journalists. The malware was able to record every keystroke a victim made and send it back to Turla's control center. The disruption effort, called Operation Medusa, took the malware offline on or about May 8. Federal researchers and counterintelligence agents were able to reverse-engineer Snake and build software that would disable the malware, which was deployed in a synchronized operation earlier this week with the cooperation of other foreign governments.