International Law Enforcement Operation Dismantles QBot Botnet

The FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, and police forces in the U.K. and Europe, have announced the takedown of the QBot (Qakbot) botnet malware.

QBot was the largest botnet in the world in terms of the number of infections, measuring 700,000 infected hosts by the time of its dismantling, and one of the longest-standing of its kind, being in operation since 2008.

The operators of QBot infected systems via multiple channels, primarily spam email, that carried malicious attachments such as PDFs, OneNote files, HTML, ZIPs, and LNKs, achieving stealthy initial infection. Then, access to those computers was sold to various malware and ransomware operators, who deployed their far more potent payloads through QBot, causing immeasurable financial damages. The U.S. DoJ announcement mentions the seizure of approximately $8.6 million worth of cryptocurrency believed to be the product of these illicit sales of initial access to cybercriminals.

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