Federal authorities said they also seized nearly $9 million in cryptocurrency collected illegally as ransom payments through the robot network.
Federal law enforcement officials have disrupted a malware known as Qakbot — a computer code used by cybercriminals to commit ransomware, financial fraud and other cyber crimes leading to massive losses worldwide, including from a food distribution company in Southern California, they announced on Tuesday, Aug. 29.
It’s the largest United States-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure used by cybercriminals, according to the Department of Justice. The operation also involved actions in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Romania and Latvia. Qakbot can then deliver additional malware, including ransomware, used to seek payments in bitcoin before returning access to the victim’s computer networks, Mrozek said.
Named “Operation Duck Hunt,” beginning Friday, law enforcement gained access to the Qakbot botnet, redirected botnet traffic to and through servers controlled by law enforcement and instructed operators of infected computers to download a Qakbot “uninstall” file that disconnected the victim computer from the botnet, federal authorities said.
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