On October 13, American and British law enforcement took action against the notorious DRIDEX botnet with the goal of stopping the activities of the notorious online banking threat. U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania called the operation a “technical disruption and a blow to one of the most pernicious malware threats in…
Read MoreMultiple command-and-control (C&C) servers used by the DRIDEX botnet have been taken down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), following the action taken by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK.
US law enforcement officials obtained court orders that resulted in the seizure of multiple servers used by DRIDEX. This crippled the malware’s C&C network, which is used by the malware to send the stolen information to the cybercriminals and to download configuration files that include the list of targeted banks. Furthermore, charges have been made against Andrey Ghinkul, aka Andrei Ghincul and Smilex, the Moldovan administrator of the botnet.
Read MoreThe collaboration between Trend Micro, INTERPOL, Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab, and the Cyber Defense Institute resulted in a triumph for the security industry earlier this week: the takedown of the SIMDA botnet. Trend Micro provided information such as the IP addresses of the affiliated servers and statistical information about the malware used, which led to the disruption of…
Read MoreWe’ve recently seen multiple arrests and take downs of cybercriminals and their infrastructure. Here is another one to add up. Law Enforcement in England has arrested and prosecuted a cybercriminal called Jam3s in cooperation with Trend Micro. His real identity is James Bayliss. James ran some SpyEye command-and-control servers and also coded a SpyEye plugin…
Read MoreEarly December last year, Microsoft – in cooperation with certain law enforcement agencies – announced their takedown of the ZeroAccess operations. However, this also unexpectedly affected another well-known botnet, TDSS. TDSS and ZeroAccess ZeroAccess is one of the most notable botnets in the world, with its malware known for rootkit capability. This malware is typically downloaded…
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