In a recent international operation, law enforcement agencies from the US and EU have taken down the QakBot botnet (see Press Release by U.S. Department of Justice, or in German, Press Release by Bundeskriminalamt). QakBot is a notorious malware that was primarily distributed via malicious emails. Its main purpose was to gain initial access to…
The cyber-espionage group has created a stealthy, hard-to-mitigate network of persistent access across a range of organizations, but the endgame is unclear.
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