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Feds Charge 16 Russians Allegedly Tied to Botnets Used in Cyberattacks and Spying
- The U.S. Department of Justice charged 16 Russia-based individuals today for operating the DanaBot malware botnet used globally since 2018.
- Authorities initiated charges after identifying DanaBot’s expansion from initial victims in Eastern Europe and Australia to targeting U.S. And Canadian financial institutions.
- DanaBot infected over 300,000 computers with features allowing credential theft, remote access, and espionage targeting military, diplomatic, and government networks in multiple countries.
- U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli stated DanaBot “harms hundreds of thousands of victims” and causes “many millions of dollars in losses,” while law enforcement disrupted most control servers worldwide.
- The indictments and coordinated takedowns marked a major disruption of a cybercriminal group profiting from data theft and espionage, though suspects remain at large primarily in Russia.
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Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spying
The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking operations as varied as ransomware, wartime cyberattacks in Ukraine, and spying against f…
DanaBot malware operation seized in global takedown
A global collection of private defenders and law enforcement agencies notched another win against a core facilitator for cybercrime, initiating coordinated seizures and takedowns of DanaBot’s command and control servers, disrupting the malware-as-a-service’s operations, the Justice Department said Thursday. Federal officials also unsealed a grand jury indictment and criminal complaint charging 16 individuals for their alleged involvement in the…
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Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs
The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many of the defendants exposed their real-life identities after accidentally infecting their own systems with the malware. DanaBot’s features, as pro…
DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs – Krebs On Security - Data Intelligence
The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many of the defendants exposed their real-life identities after accidentally infecting their own systems with the malware. DanaBot’s features, as pro…
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