40 law enforcement agencies raids seize servers hosting ransomware & botnets

Legal raids in five countries seize botnet servers, sinkhole 800,000+ domains reports ARS. A botnet that has served up phishing attacks and at least 17 different malware families to victims for much of this decade has been taken down in a coordinated effort by an international group of law enforcement agencies and security firms. Law enforcement officials seized command and control servers and took control of more than 800,000 Internet domains used by the botnet, dubbed “Avalanche,” which has been in operation in some form since at least late 2009.…

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