FBI Dismantles Alarming Qakbot Botnet That Infected 700K PCs With Malware The FBI and Justice Department recently announced a “multinational operation to disrupt and dismantle the malware and botnet known as Qakbot.” In what the authorities are calling one of the largest U.S.-led disruption operations, Qakbot infrastructure was accessed to tear down the network from the inside. Qakbot malware has been floating around the internet since roughly 2007, being operated by financially motivated threat actors who have maintained and updated the software, according to MITRE.

Source: HotHardware