US announces court-authorized disruption of Snake Malware Network controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service

May 10, 2023, at 05:29 pm

Washington: The Justice Department today announced the completion of a court-authorized operation, code-named MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake”, that the U.S. Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).