And as you cut off one head… another will take its place.
After four years of investigation, Europol and other agencies have moved against the prominent Avalanche botnet platform which acted as a hub for malware campaigns worldwide.
Europol publicly disclosed the operation on Thursday, made possible through partnerships with the FBI, the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the German Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden Eurojust, and technology firms including Shadowserver and Symantec.
Law enforcement agencies moved November 30 in a takedown which disrupted the infrastructure of criminal operations in over 30 countries and US states across 60 registries worldwide.
Five arrests were made and 37 premises searched, resulting in the seizure of 39 servers. However, a total of 221 servers were taken offline through abuse notices.
Source: Avalanche botnet network struck down in global operation | ZDNet
