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Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls While

Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against RussiaThe options presented include disrupting the internet across Russia, shutting off power and stopping trains in their tracks but White House denies the report

US and UK agencies warn of one such tool spotted in the wild just as Russia prepares a potential mass-scale invasion
of Ukraine, it's enough to raise alarms.

Any Apperance of a new TOOL used by Russia's notorious, disruptive SANDWORM HACKERS will raise the eyebrows of cybersecurity professionals braced for high-impact cyberattacks. When US and UK agencies warn of one such tool spotted in the wild just as Russia prepares a potential mass-scale invasion of Ukraine, it's enough to raise alarms.

On Wednesday, both the UK National Cybersecurity Center and the US's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released advisories warning that they—along with the FBI and NSA–have detected a new
form of network device malware being used by Sandworm, a group tied to some of the most destructive cyberattacks in history and believed to be a part of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency.


But given that Sandworm's past history of inflicting DIGITAL CHAOS includes destroying entire networks inside
Ukrainian companies and GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, triggering blackouts by targeting ELECTRICAL UTILITIES in UKRAINE, and releasing the NotPetya malware there that spread globally and cost $10 billion in damage, Slowik says even an ambiguous move by the hackers merits caution—particularly as another Russian invasion of Ukraine looms.