Moscow routinely denies carrying out cyberespionage operations. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The FBI has sabotaged a suite of malicious software used by elite Russian spies, US authorities said on Tuesday, providing a glimpse of the digital tug-of-war between two cyber superpowers.
“We assess this as being their premier espionage tool,” one of the US officials told journalists ahead of the release. He said Washington hoped the operation would “eradicate it from the virtual battlefield.” The group has been active for two decades against a variety of Nato-aligned targets, US government agencies and technology companies, a senior FBI official said.US officials spoke to journalists on Tuesday ahead of the news release on condition that they not be named. Similar announcements, revealing the FSB cyber disruption effort, were made by security agencies in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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