Totally plucked: Agents remotely roast Windows botnet malware on victims' machines
Uncle Sam today said an international law enforcement effort dismantled Qakbot, aka QBot, a notorious botnet and malware loader responsible for losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide, and seized more than $8.6 million in illicit cryptocurrency.
With an assist from France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Latvia, law enforcement over the past three days seized 52 servers in the US and abroad used to maintain the QBot network,"preventing Qakbot from resurrecting to cause further additional harm," Estrada said.
As part of the take-down operation, the Feds identified more than 700,000 infected computers worldwide, including some 200,000 in America. Then, beginning on August 21, the FBI obtained court orders allowing it to redirect Qakbot traffic to agent-controlled servers, and remotely disabled the malware on victims' machines.
The scope was limited to information installed on the victim computers by the Qakbot operators, and did not remediate any other malware on the devices, nor grant the Feds access to other information on compromised computers, according to the US Dept of Justice.] that allowed law enforcement to search computers assigned specific IP addresses and maintained by a specific provider. The IP addresses and provider name have been redacted in the court documents.
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