FBI secretly took down massive Russian botnet last month

In March, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took down a large-scale botnet belonging to a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm. According to a TechCrunch report, Sandworm infected thousands of endpoints with Cyclops Blink malware, successor to the now-defunct VPNFilter. Cyclops Blink allows Sandworm to conduct cyber espionage, launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, brick compromised devices and disrupt networks. After receiving the green light from courts in California and Pennsylvania, the FBI removed Cyclops Blink from its C2 servers, disconnecting thousands of compromised endpoints. The Justice Department said the raid was a success, but still advised device owners to review the initial advisory and further secure their devices.

Read more about it: here