U.S. and European law enforcement agencies said Wednesday they had seized control of the computing infrastructure used by Emotet, a botnet of infected machines that has been one of the most pervasive cybercrime threats over the last six years. Through the police and the courts, investigators from Ukraine to Germany to the U.S. took aim at the hundreds of computer servers that Emotet has used globally to defraud victims of millions through extortion and data theft. The investigators “gained control of the infrastructure and took it down from the inside,” Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, said in a statement. “The infected machines of victims have been redirected towards this law enforcement-controlled infrastructure. A video posted by Ukrainian police shows officers raiding an apartment and confiscating computer equipment as part of the Emotet bust. It’s a big blow to a botnet that has haunted the internet for years. […]
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