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FBI disrupts Russian military hackers, preventing botnet amid Ukraine war

The Federal Bureau of Investigation wrested control of thousands of routers and firewall appliances away from Russian military hackers by hijacking the very same devices Moscow's spies had been using to set up a “botnet” – a network of hacked computers that can bombard other servers with rogue traffic.

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