
Intel471’s Will Dixon goes behind the scenes on the DanaBot takedown
Will Dixon, Senior Intelligence Collection Manager for Intel471
Will Dixon, Senior Intelligence Collection Manager for Intel471
The move is the result customer feedback, since they neither wanted to grant AI web crawlers unrestricted access to their data nor block the practice entirely.
A burst of global law enforcement actions during the past few weeks marked by a flurry of successful takedowns gives cybercrime experts a jolt of hope.
Operation Secure targeted malicious IPs, domains and servers used for infostealer operations that claimed more than 216,000 victims.
The cybercrime marketplace was used by more than 117,000 customers and trafficked more than 15 million credit card numbers since March 2022, the Justice Department said.
AVCheck and related crypting services helped cybercriminals make malware difficult to detect and confirm that malware could slip through various antivirus tools undetected, officials said.
A coordinated effort took down seven kinds of malware and targeted initial access brokers.
The successful break-up of DanaBot marks the second high-profile law enforcement disruption of a widespread malware operation in as many days.
The benefits of cybercrime aren’t all flashy cars and watches. Sophos X-Ops researchers discovered it also fuels a far-reaching mix of ordinary, sometimes unremarkable businesses.
The long-running botnet operation used malware that infected older wireless internet routers over a 20-year period, according to federal prosecutors.