Western intelligence services are raising alarms about Cyclops Blink, the latest tool at the notorious group’s disposal.
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.
“It definitely seems like Sandworm has continued the path of compromising relatively large networks of these devices for purposes unknown,” Slowik says. “There are a number of options available to them, and given that it's Sandworm, some of those options could be concerning, and bleed into deny, degrade, disrupt, and potentially destroy, though there's no evidence of that yet.
, which infected half a million routers to form a global botnet before it was identified by Cisco and the FBI in 2018 and largely dismantled. There's no sign that Sandworm has taken control of nearly that many devices with Cyclops Blink.
The NCSC notes on its website that its advisory about Cyclops Blink is “not directly linked to the situation in Ukraine.” But even without an immediate link to the unfolding conflict in the region, signs that Russia's hyper-aggressive GRU hackers have built a new botnet of network devices serve as a timely wake-up call.
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