FBI Moves to Dismantle Network of Hacked Devices Linked to Russia

Hundreds of thousands of routers were primed for a cyberattack, possibly timed to UEFA Champions League match Saturday in Kiev

The Federal Bureau of Investigation moved to dismantle a large network of hacked routers and storage devices that Cisco Systems Inc. and U.S. and Ukraine authorities said could be used to launch a massive cyberattack or knock hundreds of thousands of internet users offline.

The FBI said late Wednesday that it has seized control of the internet domain that was used by the computer network’s “command and control” server to issue instructions to infected devices. The agency said it has begun an effort to clean up the estimated...