Avast and French police take over malware botnet and disinfect 850,000 computers

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Avast and French police take over malware botnet and disinfect 850,000 computers
Joint private-law enforcement efforts shuts down two-year-old Redatup malware operation for good
August 28, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/avast...alware-botnet-and-disinfect-850000-computers/

Antivirus maker Avast and the French National Gendarmerie announced today that they've taken down the backend infrastructure of the Retadup malware gang.

Furthermore, as a result of gaining access to this infrastructure, Avast and French authorities used the criminal gang's command and control (C&C) servers to instruct the Retadup malware to delete itself from infected computers, effectively disinfecting over 850,000 Windows systems without users having to do anything.
REDATUP -- FROM SMALL-TIME WORM TO CRYPTOMINER
The number of infected hosts surprised Avast, as the malware was thought to have been a small operation.
But in a technical report released today, Avast said that Redatup had evolved in recent years, and the malware was now running a crypto-mining scheme.

Evidence collected from the seized servers showed the Redatup gang made at least 53.72 XMR (~$4,500 USD); however, researchers suspect this is only a small fraction of the gangs historical profits.
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Avast: Putting an end to Retadup: A malicious worm that infected hundreds of thousands

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