News & Insights

Topic: Bots

3ve Takedown / Operation Eversion

November 27, 2018
Operation Eversion was the takedown of the highly sophisticated Boaxxe/Kovter botnet based "3ve" (pronounced "Eve") ad fraud network by the DoJ/FBI, Google, WhiteOps and other industry partners. Sinkhole data is available from Shadowserver.

VPNFilter - FBI Sinkholing

May 23, 2018
VPNFilter is a multi-stage modular malware platform designed to infect small office and home office (SOHO) routers and other network devices, believed to be connected to APT28. It was sinkholed under court order by the FBI, with infected device data being made available via Shadowserver's free daily network reports.