More than 100 web domains allegedly linked to a cyber-espionage campaign run by the Russian government have been seized by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and tech giant Microsoft, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.
The DOJ unsealed a warrant authorizing agents to seize 41 internet domains they said are being used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to “commit computer fraud and abuse in the United States.”
According to the partially unsealed affidavit filed in support of the government’s seizure warrant, the seized domains were used by hackers or criminal proxies working for the Callisto Group—an operational unit within the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB….