‘Operation Endgame’ deals major blow to malware distribution botnets

In what Europol calls the largest-ever takedown operation against botnets, law enforcement agencies from different countries managed to disrupt the infrastructure, seize assets, and arrest suspects behind some of the most widespread malware droppers.

Malware droppers are malicious programs that are controlled as part of a botnet and are primarily used to deploy additional malware payloads, usually as a service to other cybercriminal groups. In that sense they are part of the initial access brokers that ransomware gangs and other …

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