The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the successful completion of Operation MEDUSA by the FBI. The operation neutralized software allegedly used by the Russian FSB to steal confidential data.
«Today, the Department of Justice announced the completion of a court-authorized operation, code-named MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers infected with sophisticated malware called Snake, which the U.S. government attributes to a unit of the Russian FSB’s 16th Center. For nearly 20 years, this unit, known as Turla, has used various versions of Snake malware to steal confidential documents from hundreds of computer systems in at least 50 countries. These systems belonged, in particular, to governments of NATO member countries, journalists, and other entities of interest to the Russian Federation,» the ministry said in a statement.