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ForkLog 12 17.07.2024

Alleged Trickbot Hacker Arrested in Moscow

On July 15, an alleged member of the hacker group behind the Trickbot botnet was detained in Moscow at the request of Interpol, according to the Telegram channel Baza. According to available information, 37-year-old Fedor A. is wanted by German authorities. In addition to his connection with Trickbot, he is suspected of organizing criminal and […]

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ForkLog 10 31.05.2024

US Arrests Creator of Botnet That Amassed Over $130 Million in Cryptocurrencies

The US Department of Justice has dismantled the major 911 S5 botnet, responsible for a series of cyberattacks and fraud incidents. The network’s creator, 35-year-old Yunhe Wang, a citizen of China and Saint Kitts and Nevis, has been arrested. According to the case materials, from 2014 to 2022, Wang compromised a million home computers in […]

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ForkLog 8 30.08.2023

FBI Seizes Nearly $9 Million in Bitcoin From Qakbot Botnet Operators

FBI agents, as part of an international operation, dismantled the Qakbot botnet, which infected more than 700,000 computers worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice said.

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ForkLog 11 08.04.2022

FBI foiled plan to create Russian botnet on thousands of devices

U.S. FBI personnel repelled an attack by Russian hackers on thousands of routers and firewalls that were to be networked into a botnet to flood third-party servers with fraudulent traffic.

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ForkLog 11 13.12.2021

Botnet operator jailed for four years in the United States for Bitcoin theft

A U.S. court sentenced Russian Oleg Koshkin to four years in prison for organizing the Kelihos malware, which among other things stole funds from Bitcoin wallets.

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ForkLog 7 08.12.2021

Google accuses two Russians of building a botnet for covert cryptocurrency mining

In the United States district court in New York, Google filed a suit against the alleged creators of the Glupteba botnet, which infected more than a million Windows-based computers.

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ForkLog 7 29.10.2021

US charges six Russians and one Ukrainian over Trickbot botnet

Six Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged in the case of the hacking group that controlled Trickbot malware and has infected more than a million computers since 2016.

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ForkLog 8 14.07.2021

SBU-discovered data centre in Vinnytsia ran bot-boosting, not mining

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has clarified details of the investigation into the mining farm discovered a week ago in one of the former warehouse premises of Vinnytsiaoblenergo.

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ForkLog 9 24.06.2021

DirtyMoe botnet potentially infected tens of thousands of computers in Russia with hidden miners

Since the beginning of 2021, about 65,000 computers in Russia have been infected with the DirtyMoe botnet. The main goal of the malware remains to install a hidden cryptocurrency miner on the victim’s device.

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ForkLog 11 24.03.2021

Purple Fox botnet acquires worm-like traits to disseminate a hidden miner

The Purple Fox botnet operators changed their distribution method and began hacking Windows devices by brute-forcing SMB passwords, according to Guardicore researchers.

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ForkLog 5 28.01.2021

Law enforcement dismantles the ‘world’s most dangerous’ Emotet botnet

With joint efforts by the authorities of the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Canada and Ukraine, Europol said the Emotet botnet has been dismantled. It was described as the world's most dangerous malware.

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ForkLog 3 27.10.2020

Mining botnet targets WordPress-powered sites

The KashmirBlack botnet operators hacked hundreds of thousands of sites running WordPress, Joomla, Magento and Drupal, according to Imperva specialists.

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