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The FBI has teamed up with security vendors to disrupt the operations of Dridex banking Trojan. Multiple command-and-control (C&C) servers used by the Dridex Trojan have been taken down and seized in a co-ordinated action after the FBI obtained court orders. The take-down operation is geared towards crippling the malware’s control network, which is used to upload stolen information to crooks behind the network as well as pushing instructions and software configuration to zombie nodes on the botnet. Attack traffic is being re-routed towards sinkholes under the control of an organisation called The Shadowserver Foundation.

A strain of malware called Dridex has been making Eastern European cybercriminals a significant amount of money in recent years. But a spanner has been thrust into their machinations by a global law enforcement action announced today that saw one significant arrest and an attempt to dismantle the crook’s infrastructure.

Attackers have installed malicious firmware on nearly 200 Cisco routers used by businesses from over 30 countries, according to Internet scans performed by cybercrime fighters at the Shadowserver Foundation.

Previously, cyber security firm FireEye reported that only 14 Cisco routers of companies in India, Philippines, Mexico, and the Ukraine were infected with the malware. Monday’s report by the Shadowserver Foundation, however, shows that compromised routers can now be found in 31 countries, with 65 of the devices located in the United States.

SA government, Shadowserver Foundation and Let’s Encrypt recognised for contributions to cyber security

Many people still think that malware is a software that completely disrupts normal functioning of PCs. If your computer is working tip-top, it means it’s not infected, right? Wrong. Malware creators are not your bored cyber-cowboys anymore. The main goal of cybercriminals is not to make a cyber-badaboom just for kicks, but to earn money. In many cases this goal dictates completely opposite behaviour of malware: the best one is the least visible to users.

A joint operation by crime agencies and computer security companies has successfully taken down the Beebone botnet.

The Beebone botnet, used to deliver multiple malware payloads to compromised machines, has been shut down by US and European forces. On 8 April, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) teamed up with Dutch law enforcement, the FBI and security firms including Intel, Kaspersky and Shadowserver to disrupt the botnet under the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce umbrella.

The botnet takedown, known as Operation Source, was led by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT). Most EU member states and law enforcement partners around the world coordinated in the action. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit led the J-CAT effort. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation provided valuable support.