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A global operation took down the Simda botnet

  • April 13, 2015
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April 13, 2015  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

Law enforcement dismantled the Simda botnet in an international joint effort that involved also most important private security firms.

 
Another joint operation conducted by law enforcement worldwide and private firms has dismantled the Simda botnet, investigators seized 14 Command and control servers, ten of which located in the Netherlands. Other C&C servers were located found in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia and in the United States.
 
Security experts from the FBI, the Police Grand-Ducale Section Nouvelles Technologies in Luxembourg, the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), and the Cybercrime Department “K” of the Russian Ministry of the Interior participated in the operation that involved also private security firms Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab, Trend Micro, and the Japan’s Cyber Defense Institute.
 
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    Graham Cluley | April 14, 2015
     

    Interpol and a variety of key players in the computer security industry have announced the takedown of the Simda botnet, believed to have infected some 770,000 PCs around the world.
     
    Command and control servers in the Netherlands, United States, Russia, Luxembourg and Poland were seized by the authorities, preventing the criminals from exploiting the botnet to install further malware and other unwanted software.
     
    It was not uncommon to see computers hijacked by the Simda botnet being used to generate income for online criminals by installing click fraud malware, and cryptocurrency miners.
     
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