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Justice Department Announces Disruption of the Snake Malware Network

by zhan_eg on 5/9/23, 6:55 PM with 2 comments

  • by scrum-treats on 5/9/23, 9:24 PM

    > "The FBI gained physical access to some of the compromised computers, studied Snake and developed a tool called “Perseus” to decrypt and decode Snake communications."

    I'm confused. Did FBI create Perseus, or did they buy it[1]?

    [1]https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57881364

  • by TechBro8615 on 5/9/23, 9:58 PM

    It sounds like they patched infected hosts but didn't necessarily identify or remove any command and control infrastructure. Did I read that correctly?