DOJ Seizes Domains Used in Emails Blamed on Russian Hackers

The U.S. Justice Department announced it has seized two domain names used in an phishing email attack from the Russian hackers said to be behind the SolarWinds software campaign.

The seizure is meant to disrupt malicious actors from exploiting victims of the hack and identify compromised victims, the department said, though it cautioned that there may still be backdoors granting hackers access.

Hackers distributed phishing emails targeting about 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organizations by infiltrating a digital marketing service used by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to a May 27 notice by …

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