Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside
Europol and FBI among agencies that have taken control of the botnet infrastructure used by cyber criminals behind some of the most prolific malware and ransomware attacks.
ZDNet Danny Palmer
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Discussion
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@europol
@europol
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Bye-bye botnets👋 Huge global operation brings down the world's most dangerous malware. Investigators have taken control of the Emotet botnet, the most resilient malware in the wild. Get the full story: https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@joetidy
Joe Tidy
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BREAKING: US Department of Justice announces they've arrested a Canadian and taken out this ransomware group's darknet website. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins is alleged to have obtained at least over $27.6 million in hacking spree. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/..…
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@hatr
Hakan
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Two of three of Emotet's primary command and control (C&C) servers were located inside the Netherlands. Dutch officials “used their first-hand access to these two crucial servers to deploy a boobytrapped Emotet update that contains a time bomb.” https://www.zdnet.com/...
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@dannyjpalmer
Danny Palmer
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NEW - Emotet: 'World's most dangerous malware' botnet disrupted by international police operation This botnet takedown “will have an important impact on the criminal landscape,” Fernando Ruiz, Head of Operations at @EC3Europol told me. https://www.zdnet.com/... via @ZDNet
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@modernhomesla
@modernhomesla
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First surfacing in 2014, Emotet began as a banking trojan, but over the years it has evolved into one of the more aggressive platforms for spreading malware that lays the groundwork for ransomware attacks. https://twitter.com/...
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@bobbychesney
Bobby Chesney
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This is turning out to be quite a day for multilateral law enforcement efforts relating to ransomware. First the Emotet take down, and now something similar afoot with NetWalker. These aren't silver bullets, but they matter and it is great to see it. https://twitter.com/...
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@malwaretechblog
@malwaretechblog
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Emotet botnet is offline following a massive international law enforcement operation. Control servers were seized by authorities and bots redirected to a sinkhole. Great work! https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ...
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@ergobtc
@ergobtc
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Raid by Ukranian Police. https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@ericgeller
Eric Geller
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A global law enforcement operation has dismantled the Emotet botnet, one of the longest-running and most successful cybercrime operations in the world. https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ... Check out this dope video of the police raids: https://www.youtube.com/...
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@briankrebs
@briankrebs
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1/3: Cyber cops in several countries say they've seized control over the control servers for Emotet, a massive cybercrime-as-a-service network. The effort could help quarantine > 1M infected Windows systems. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
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@k3r3n3
@k3r3n3
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This story about #Emotet takedown is some of the best #cyber news I've heard so far in 2021! Well done @Europol @EC3Europol and all your partners! https://twitter.com/...