The agencies infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit crippling ransomware attacks and other crimes.
It’s not just big companies that fall victim to ransomware attacks. Here’s the story of a small business that almost got wrecked by one.Officials said $8.6 million in cybercurrency was seized or frozen but no arrests were announced.
Officials estimated the so-called malware loader, also known as Pinkslipbot and Qbot, was leveraged to cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage since first appearing in 2008 as an information-stealing bank trojan. They said millions of people in nearly every country in the world have been affected.initial access to targeted computers.
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