Announcementseverity: High2023-05-09
DOJ disrupts Snake malware network (Operation MEDUSA)
published by U.S. Department of Justice
Actor
Russian state-sponsored actor publicly attributed to FSB Center 16. One of the longest-running espionage sets on record, known for the Snake (Uroburos) implant — a sophisticated peer-to-peer covert c…
Summary
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a court-authorized operation that disrupted the Snake malware peer-to-peer network operated by FSB Center 16 (Turla). The operation used a tool called PERSEUS to issue commands that caused Snake implants on compromised computers worldwide to overwrite themselves.
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