Emilia David

The Justice Department said the botnet used the Moobot malware, which was initially installed by “non-GRU cybercriminals” on Ubiquiti Edge OS routers. Then, the feds say, Russia’s GRU Military Unit 26165, (aka APT28, Fancy Bear, and a few other names), repurposed the network to harvest credentials of “targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government.”

The Guardian reports that Squishmallows parent company Jazwares is suing Build-A-Bear over its new line of rotund, kawaii animals, Skoosherz, accusing it of copying their toys’ “simplified Asian-style kawaii faces.”