FBI may have disrupted major cyberattack on Ukraine

 


LONDON (AP) — The FBI has put a spoke in the wheel of a major Russian hacking operation potentially aimed at causing havoc in Ukraine, evidence pieced together from researchers, Ukrainian officials and U.S. court documents indicates.

On Wednesday, network technology company Cisco Systems and antivirus company Symantec warnedthat a half-million routers had been compromised in a possible effort to lay the groundwork for a cyber-sabotage operation against targets in Ukraine.

Court documents simultaneously unsealed in Pittsburgh the same day show the FBI has seized a key website communicating with...



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