Justice Department Announces Disruption of the Snake Malware Network

Posted by zhan_eg on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @02:55PM
from the justice.gov dept.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/justice-department-announces-court-authorized-disruption-snake-malware-network

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Re:Justice Department Announces Disruption of the Snake Malw... by scrum-treats on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:24PM (#35880572)

> "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

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Re:Justice Department Announces Disruption of the Snake Malw... by TechBro8615 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:58PM (#35880916)

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

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