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Cybercops Scrub Botnet Software from Millions of Computers
2021-04-27 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
The notorious Emotet botnet software began uninstalling itself from some one million computers Sunday. The uninstall command was part of an update sent to the infected computers by law enforcement servers in the Netherlands after Emotet's infrastructure was compromised in January during a multinational operation mounted by eight nations.
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HUMAN discovers and disrupts CTV ad fraud botnet
2021-04-21 15:30:51| Digital TV News
HUMAN has discovered a CTV ad fraud botnet consisting of nearly a million infected mobile Android devices pretending to be millions of people watching ads on smart TVs and other devices.
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This botnet has surged back into action spreading a new ransomware campaign via phishing emails
2020-07-13 17:40:18| PortlandOnline
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Microsoft Leaves Necurs Botnet in Shambles
2020-03-13 12:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Microsoft has and partners have disrupted the Necurs botnet group blamed for infecting more than 9 million computers globally. There are 11 botnets under the Necurs umbrella, all apparently controlled by a single group, according to Valter Santos, security researcher at Bitsight, which worked with Microsoft on the takedown. Four of those botnets account for about 95 percent of all infections.
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DoubleVerify identifies first scaled CTV botnet attack
2018-11-16 23:30:18| Digital TV News
DoubleVerify (DV) has announced the identification of a new bot network specifically targeting Connected TV (CTV) devices. DV uncovered the botnet after the company saw a 40% spike in traffic from CTV devices.
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