Europol disrupts cybercrime ring that infected millions of PCs

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/uk-cybersecurity-europe-idUKKBN0LT0U020150225

BY ANTHONY DEUTSCH AND JIM FINKLE
AMSTERDAM/BOSTON
Reuters.com
Feb 25, 2015

(Reuters) - A cybercrime operation that stole banking information by 
hacking more than 3 million computers in Indonesia, India and other 
countries has been disrupted by European police with assistance from three 
technology companies, officials said on Wednesday.

The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol, the European police agency, 
coordinated the operation out of its headquarters in The Hague, targeting 
the so-called Ramnit botnet, a network of computers infected with malware.

Working with investigators from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and 
Britain, it was assisted by AnubisNetworks, a unit of BitSight 
Technologies; Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp in dismantling the server 
infrastructure used by the criminals, Europol said.

"The criminals have lost control of the infrastructure they were using," 
Paul Gillen, head of operations at Europol's cybercrime centre, told 
Reuters.

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