U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including grave ransomware attacks. Qakbot's ransomware victims included an Illinois-based engineering firm, financial services organisations in Alabama and Kansas, along with a Maryland defence manufacturer and …
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LOS ANGELES — U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks. “Nearly ever sector of the economy has been victimized by Qakbot,” Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, …
The FBI announced that it and European partners, including Europol, whose Cybercrime Center is shown, had infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit crippling ransomware attacks and other crimes. U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major malware …
