{"id":51842,"date":"2023-05-10T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/34601\/How-One-Of-Vladimir-Putins-Most-Prized-Hacking-Units-Got-Pwned-By-The-FBI.html"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:17:27","slug":"how-one-of-vladimir-putins-most-prized-hacking-units-got-pwned-by-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/how-one-of-vladimir-putins-most-prized-hacking-units-got-pwned-by-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Most Prized Hacking Units Got Pwned By The FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/system-hacked-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"How one of Vladimir Putin\u2019s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-credit\">Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\"> <a class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/05\/how-the-fbi-pwned-turla-a-kremlin-jewel-and-one-of-worlds-most-skilled-apts\/?comments=1\"> <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"comment-count-before\">reader comments<\/h4>\n<p> <span class=\"comment-count-number\">59<\/span> <span class=\"visually-hidden\"> with <\/span> <\/a> <\/aside>\n<p> <!-- cache hit 425:single\/related:1cbf1abd9c0652235f4d8aa2f3315bd4 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>FBI officials on Tuesday dropped a major bombshell: After spending years monitoring exceptionally stealthy malware that one of the Kremlin\u2019s most advanced hacker units had installed on hundreds of computers around the world, agents unloaded a payload that caused the malware to disable itself.<\/p>\n<p>The counter-hack took aim at Snake, the name of a sprawling piece of cross-platform malware that for more than two decades has been in use for espionage and sabotage. Snake is developed and operated by Turla, one of the world&#8217;s most sophisticated APTs, short for advanced persistent threats, a term for long-running hacking outfits sponsored by nation-states.<\/p>\n<h2>Inside jokes, taunts, and mythical dragons<\/h2>\n<p>If nation-sponsored hacking was baseball, then Turla would not just be a Major League team\u2014it would be a perennial playoff contender. Researchers from multiple security firms largely agree that Turla was behind breaches of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/26\/technology\/26cyber.html\">US Department of Defense in 2008<\/a>, and more recently the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180302201850\/https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-germany-cyber\/german-government-hack-was-part-of-worldwide-campaign-sources-idUKKCN1GE2H5\">German Foreign Office<\/a> and France&#8217;s military. The group has also been known for <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/12\/powerful-highly-stealthy-linux-trojan-may-have-infected-victims-for-years\/\">unleashing stealthy Linux malware<\/a> and using <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2015\/09\/how-highly-advanced-hackers-abused-satellites-to-stay-under-the-radar\/\">satellite-based Internet links<\/a> to maintain the stealth of its operations.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most powerful tools in Turla\u2019s arsenal is Snake, a digital Swiss Army knife of sorts that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Written in the C programming language, Snake comes as a highly modular series of pieces that are built on top of a massive peer-to-peer network that covertly links one infected computer with another. Snake, the FBI said, has to date spread to more than 50 countries and infected computers belonging to NATO member governments, a US journalist who has covered Russia, and sectors involving critical infrastructure, communications, and education.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\"> <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span> <\/aside>\n<p>A short list of Snake capabilities includes a backdoor that allows Turla to install or uninstall malware on infected computers, send commands, and exfiltrate data of interest to the Kremlin. A professionally designed piece of software, Snake uses several layers of custom encryption to encrypt commands and exfiltrated data. Over the P2P network, the encrypted commands and data travel through a chain of hop points made up of other infected machines in a way that makes it difficult to detect or track the activity.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of Snake date back to at least 2003, with the creation of a precursor called \u201cUroburos,\u201d a variation of ouroboros, which is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. A low-resolution image of German philosopher and theologian Jakob B\u00f6hme, which appears below, at one point served as the key to a redundant backdoor Turla would install on some hacked endpoints.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img full full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/uroboros-historical-illustration.jpg\" width=\"967\" height=\"668\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Uroburos name lived on in early versions of the malware, even after it was renamed Snake\u2014for instance, in the string \u201cUr0bUr()sGoTyOu#.\u201d In 2014, the string was replaced with \u201cgLASs D1cK.\u201d Other strings allude to inside jokes, personal interests of the developers, and taunts directed at security researchers who analyze or counter their code.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a 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