Police raids take down botnet

The botnet was linked to as much as 70% of the malware used around the world to steal financial data and install ransomware

Emotet, one of the world's most dangerous cyber crime services, has been taken down following one of the largest ever internationally-coordinated actions against cyber criminals.

Although it began as banking malware designed to steal financial credentials, Emotet had become an infrastructure tool leased out to cyber criminals to break into victim computer networks and install additional malicious software.

Law enforcement agencies in the UK, North America and Europe had worked for almost two years to map the system's infrastructure before the National Police of Ukraine raided properties to capture the computers it was being controlled from.

Read the full article here: https://news.sky.com/story/emotet-police-raids-take-down-botnet-that-hacked-millions-of-computers-worldwide-12200460

Alexander Martin

Technology reporter @AlexMartin