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Merrick Garland
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks about a significant firearms trafficking enforcement action during a news conference at the Justice Department on April 1, 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

US says it disrupted Russian botnet ‘before it could be weaponized’

The botnet was being assembled by Russia's foreign intelligence agency, the GRU, Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference.
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Participants of the war with Russia backed separatists on the east of Ukraine, activists of Right Sector, far-right movement hold flags as they march after their rally called “Stop the creeping occupation!” outside the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on November 4, 2021. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine exposes expansive Russian hacking operation targeting its government, infrastructure

Ukraine doxxed phone calls from the hackers, known in Ukraine as "Armageddon" but as Gamaredon elsewhere.
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