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For the second time in a year the FBI has used search-and-seizure warrants to clean malware from devices owned by private businesses and users without their explicit approval. The agency used this approach to disrupt a botnet believed to be the creation of Russian government hackers.

The operation targeted the Cyclops Blink malware that was discovered earlier this year and is attributed to a group known in the security industry as Sandworm, which the U.S. and UK intelligence agencies believe is a unit within the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the GRU).

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