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FBI takes down Russian malware network used to attack NATO allies

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The US Justice Department (DoJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed they jointly took down a network of compromised computers used to steal sensitive data from NATO by a known Russian state-sponsored actor for almost 20 years. 

In a press release, the agencies outlined their work, codenamed MEDUSA, authorized by the court, to disrupt a “global peer-to-peer network” of computers infected by Snake.

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