The takedown represents the largest United States-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure leveraged by cybercriminals to commit cyber-enabled criminal activity.
Federal law enforcement officials have disrupted the infrastructure of the notorious Qakbot malware, a malicious computer code used by cybercriminals to commit ransomware, financial fraud, and other cyber-enabled crimes causing"massive losses" to businesses around the world, including a food distribution company in Southern California, officials said Tuesday
During a press conference in downtown Los Angeles, the DOJ also announced the seizure of more than $8.6 million in cryptocurrency in illicit profits. The operation involved actions in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Romania and Latvia, officials said.
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