Prosecutor release
Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of DNS Hijacking Network Controlled by a Russian Military Intelligence Unit
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (U.S. Department of Justice), April 7, 2026. That the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was the charging/prosecuting office for the court-authorized disruption of a GRU Unit 26165 (APT28) DNS-hijacking network built on compromised TP-Link SOHO routers, with the FBI sending remediation commands to routers in the United States..
- Source type
- Prosecutor release
- Published
- April 7, 2026
- Research grade
- P1
- Used in entries
- 0
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (U.S. Department of Justice)
- Published
- April 7, 2026
- Source type
- Prosecutor release
- Research grade
- Source grade P1
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Official publication
- What it supports
- That the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was the charging/prosecuting office for the court-authorized disruption of a GRU Unit 26165 (APT28) DNS-hijacking network built on compromised TP-Link SOHO routers, with the FBI sending remediation commands to routers in the United States.
- Dataset id
- src_usao_edpa_dns_hijacking_disruption
Research notes
- Verified via the justice.gov press-release JSON API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json?title=DNS%20Hijacking); justice.gov blocks plain HTML fetching.
- DOJ components listed on the release: FBI, FBI Cyber Division, National Security Division, USAO - Pennsylvania, Eastern.
- The same release is also published by the DOJ Office of Public Affairs at https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-conducts-court-authorized-disruption-dns-hijacking-network-controlled
- Announced as 'Operation Masquerade', led by FBI Boston.
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