‘We’re defending our homeland’: FBI remotely scrubs Russian malware from thousands of compromised devices – series of FBI engineered commands sent to compromised home and small office routers disrupt… (www.techradar.com)

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The FBI utilized cutting edge technology and leveraged our private sector and international partners to unmask this malicious activity and remediate routers.

Oh so Palantir and Mossad did it.

Awesome.

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