Jan 29, 2021 17:00:00

Police organization announces that it will wipe out the network of the world's most dangerous malware 'Emotet'

Europe 8 countries of the police to cooperate

European police detective mechanism (Europol) is removed from the infected PC malware 'Emotet' which was rampant in the world, announced that it has succeeded in operations to kill the bot net of Emotet Did.

World's most dangerous malware EMOTET disrupted through global action | Europol
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/world%E2%80%99s-most-dangerous-malware-emotet-disrupted-through-global-action

Internationale politieoperatie LadyBird: wereldwijd botnet Emotet ontmanteld | politie.nl
https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2021/januari/27/11-internationale-politieoperatie-ladybird-botnet-emotet-wereldwijd-ontmanteld.html

Emotet: The world's most dangerous malware botnet was just disrupted by a major police operation | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/emotet-worlds-most-dangerous-malware-botnet-disrupted-by-international-police-operation/

Emotet first appeared in 2014 as a Trojan horse aimed at banking infrastructure systems, and has since become known as one of the most powerful malware used by cybercriminals.

Emotet distributes infected Word documents via automatic phishing emails and builds a backdoor to Windows. The subject line of emails sent by Emotet and the filenames of documents are changed on a regular basis, increasing the likelihood that the victim will unknowingly open the document attached to the email.

The PC with the backdoor installed by Emotet will function as a gateway for cyber criminals who use Emotet to attack with remote access tools and ransomware. With more than 600,000 PCs damaged at the time of writing, Europol described Emotet as 'the most dangerous malware in the world' and 'one of the most important botnets of the last decade.' I was investigating.

Europol then developed 'Operation Ladybird' as 'a unique and new approach to effectively disrupting the activities of cybercriminals.'

Europol confiscated two of Emotet's three major servers after an investigation revealed that they were located in the Netherlands. We have successfully updated Emotet to redirect to a law enforcement-managed server and delivered it to hosts infected with Emotet.

Bye-bye botnets ???? Huge global operation brings down the world's most dangerous malware.

Investigators have taken control of the Emotet botnet, the most resilient malware in the wild.

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— Europol (@Europol) January 27, 2021

Europol states that it will uninstall Emotet by continuing to deliver Emotet updates to all infected hosts.

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Like Emotet, the FBI was also conducting a follow-up survey on the ransomware 'NetWalker,' which had been suffering from worldwide damage.

Damage to ransomware 'NetWalker', which extorted a total of 2.7 billion yen in just five months, has expanded --GIGAZINE

As a result of the investigation, the FBI has announced that it has arrested a Canadian suspected of fraudulently acquiring about $ 454,000 in cryptocurrency.

Cybercops derail malware botnet, FBI makes ransomware arrest
https://apnews.com/article/europe-malware-netherlands-coronavirus-pandemic-7de5f74120a968bd0a5bee3c57899fed