273:, were already infected with the malware across 54 countries. VPNFilter essentially acted as a "kill switch" the threat actor could pull at any time to render the device useless. The FBI would go on to release a warning telling users of the affected routers to factory reset their devices to protect against the malware. American law enforcement agencies would eventually go on to seize the botnet associated with VPNFilter and even backdoored some consumer routers. A variant of VPNFilter known as
316:. The company announced in early March 2022 that it was directly operating security products 24/7 for critical customers in Ukraine. More than 500 employees in Cisco were assisting at the time in collecting open-source intelligence for Talos to act on. Talos researchers also created Ukraine-specific protections based on the intelligence they received. The company also wrote about numerous cyberattacks targeting Ukraine during Russia's invasion, including countless
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