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In a successful international effort involving Europol, the FBI, the UK’s National Crime Agency, and other nations, one of the world’s most prolific and dangerous malware botnets, Emotet, was taken down after authorities took control over its infrastructure during a week of operations that disrupted Emotet from the inside.

Emotet establishes a backdoor into Windows systems via automated phishing emails, providing a platform for delivering a host of additional malware infections such as Ryuk ransomware and Trickbot banking trojans by cybercriminals who lease Emotet’s army of infected machines. (Danny Palmer / ZDNet)

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