DOJ Dismantles Premier Russian Spy Tool That Was In Place For 20 Years!

Maybe I don't understand this. So the Russians were able to snake in malware over 20 Years ago and "our team" is just now finding and dismantling it? What?

If we are just finding their Windows XP malware, what the hell have they got now? This is almost unbelievable and really calls into question our cybersecurity competency.



Surreptitious malware that was stealing data from U.S. and NATO networks for more than two decades has been taken down, officials say.

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U.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.

Russia’s modern day equivalent of the KGB, the FSB, deployed the Snake malware to purloin sensitive information from U.S. and NATO government agencies, defense companies, foreign ministries, media organizations and high-tech research facilities, a senior FBI official told reporters Tuesday.

Overall, the Kremlin spies used the carefully crafted computer program to steal intellectual property and sensitive information from victims in more than 50 countries.

“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.

a reply to: infolurker

yeshuwah ehehyeh alohim dbrueh? what is the last word?

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Not a secops guy but I do know that it's hard. Hats off to the engineers that were able to actually able to identify suspicious communication over a custom made protocol and actually decrypt it. Im really left wondering if theyve actually decrypted aes encrypted data or did Russia roll its own.

Probably the latter, if its the former I'm actually terrified now.

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I don't think this is something to brag about...

originally posted by: infolurker
Maybe I don't understand this. So the Russians were able to snake in malware over 20 Years ago and "our team" is just now finding and dismantling it? What?

If we are just finding their Windows XP malware, what the hell have they got now? This is almost unbelievable and really calls into question our cybersecurity competency.
We don’t need tools against Russia, China, or Ukraine. Not when our White House is working for or with them for big $.



Surreptitious malware that was stealing data from U.S. and NATO networks for more than two decades has been taken down, officials say.

www.politico.com...

U.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.

Russia’s modern day equivalent of the KGB, the FSB, deployed the Snake malware to purloin sensitive information from U.S. and NATO government agencies, defense companies, foreign ministries, media organizations and high-tech research facilities, a senior FBI official told reporters Tuesday.

Overall, the Kremlin spies used the carefully crafted computer program to steal intellectual property and sensitive information from victims in more than 50 countries.

“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.

We don’t need tools against Russia, China, or Ukraine. Not when our whole admin works for them in various ways.

This is not shocking.
Remember....McKinnen (sp) was able to access Pentagon, Navy, Space Command and other computers by using a password of..."Password"

DOJ Dismantles Premier Russian Spy Tool That Was In Place For 20 Years!

Or , so they say ....