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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/dojs-sandworm-operation-raises-questions-about-how-far-feds-can-go-to-disarm-botnets/
- Published: 2022-04-10T09:00:15-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.cyberscoop.com