{"id":132024,"date":"2021-12-09T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/google-disrupts-cybercrime-web-infecting-1-mn-devices"},"modified":"2021-12-09T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:23:08","slug":"google-disrupts-cybercrime-web-infecting-1-mn-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/google-disrupts-cybercrime-web-infecting-1-mn-devices","title":{"rendered":"Google disrupts cybercrime web infecting 1 mn devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-disrupts-cybercrime-web-infecting-1-mn-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google said Tuesday it has moved to shut down a network of about one million hijacked electronic devices used worldwide to commit online crimes, while also suing Russia-based hackers the tech giant claimed were responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called botnet of infected devices, which was also used to surreptitiously mine bitcoin, was cut off at least for now from the people wielding it on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operators of Glupteba are likely to attempt to regain control of the botnet using a backup command and control mechanism,\u201d wrote Shane Huntley and Luca Nagy from Google\u2019s threat analysis group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said Tuesday it has moved to shut down a network of about one million hijacked electronic devices used worldwide to commit online crimes, while also suing Russia-based hackers the tech giant claimed were responsible. The so-called botnet of infected devices, which was also used to surreptitiously mine bitcoin, was cut off at least for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}