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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The United States government said today that a multinational law enforcement operation has destroyed Qakbot, also known as QBot, an infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitynewspaper.com\/2023\/05\/26\/mirai-botnet-is-back-with-a-new-version-iz1h9\/\">botnet<\/a> and malware loader that was responsible for losses that amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars all over the globe, and that they have confiscated more than $8.6 million in illegal cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>During a news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/fbi-partners-dismantle-qakbot-infrastructure-in-multinational-cyber-takedown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">conference<\/a> held on Tuesday to announce the takedown of the botnet, United States Attorney Martin Estrada referred to the investigation as \u201cthe most significant technological and financial operation ever led by the Department of Justice against a botnet.\u201d Duck Hunt was headed by the FBI. For one thing, the federal government developed some software that, when installed on computers that were infected with Qbot, would make the virus useless.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement agencies in the United States and other countries have worked together over the last three days to confiscate 52 servers that were being used to sustain the QBot network. With assistance from France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Latvia, these agencies were successful in \u201cpreventing Qakbot from resurrecting to cause further additional harm,\u201d as stated in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government said today that a multinational law enforcement operation has destroyed Qakbot, also known as QBot, an infamous botnet and malware loader that was responsible for losses that amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars all over the globe, and that they have confiscated more than $8.6 million in illegal cryptocurrencies. During [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1761,34,45,1490,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-government","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171475","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}