DOJ’s Sandworm operation raises questions about how far feds can go to disarm botnets

Photo: FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Justice Department on April 06, 2022 in Washington, DC, announcing the Sandworm operation. Photo credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images. Article by Suzanne Smalley. CyberScoop – April 8, 2022.

The notion that citizens are protected from unreasonable search and seizure is a bedrock legal principle: A court must issue a search warrant before police can enter a private home and ransack it looking for evidence. In what former prosecutors and legal experts call a landmark operation, the Department of Justice has now tested that principle to disrupt a Russian botnet that was spreading malware on a far-flung network of computers. […]

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