French police successfully cracked down on a botnet that exploits 850,000 computers from more than 100 countries.

Authorities representing the French cyber-police said the country's cyber-war forces had launched a widespread attack and successfully cracked down a money-exploiting botnet. The giant electronic scale is believed to have infected and affected more than 850,000 computers in 100 different countries and territories around the world.

According to the BBC's report, a few months ago, the French police's high-tech crime prevention center (also known as the C3N digital crime prevention center), received scene information. reports that a large-scale server based in Paris has been actively spreading a malicious virus called Retadup. The virus is thought to have infected hundreds of thousands of Windows-based computers around the globe, silently turning these computers into a cryptocurrency mining bot, thereby creating a network to exploit virtual currencies with multinational scale. Central and South America are the regions that have received the most reports of Retadup infection.

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French police successfully cracked down on a botnet that exploits 850,000 computers from more than 100 countries. Picture 1 French police have successfully dismantled a huge network of cryptocurrency mining networks

More detailed information about malicious code. After successfully infecting the victim's system, the virus will act as a bridge to allow hackers to control and install arbitrary cryptocurrency mining programs on the victim's system. multiply. Reports indicate hackers have used Retadup to 'create Monero cryptocurrency mining machines'. Perhaps malicious agents have tried to install XMRig or a similar program to silently turn infected computers into virtual currency mining equipment for them without the owners' knowledge.

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French police successfully cracked down on a botnet that exploits 850,000 computers from more than 100 countries. Picture 2 Retadup turns victim's computer into Monero digging tools

In addition, hackers also used ransomware to blackmail victims. In most cases, they will use ransomware to ask victims to pay ransom with other more popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Authorities do not disclose the amount of virtual currency hackers have earned by spreading the malicious virus, but cybersecurity experts believe that botnet networks have been created on such a large scale. The actual number could reach millions of euros.

The head of C3N, General Jean-Dominique Nollet, recently revealed to France Inter Radio some notable information about the campaign to destroy the botnet and suspend all its illicit activities.

'Basically, we discovered the command server and the control tower of the malware network,' botnet '. It was copied by us, and faked with another server. We then took some necessary measures to prevent the virus from continuing to work on the infected computers of the victim, '' Jean-Dominique Nollet said.

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French police successfully cracked down on a botnet that exploits 850,000 computers from more than 100 countries. Picture 3 Mr. Jean-Dominique Nollet - Head of C3N Digital Crime Prevention Center

In addition, the general also said that C3N will continue to operate the server that its owner has faked to deploy a large-scale 'disinfecting' campaign to all victim computers in the botnet. this.

Although the authorities have successfully dismantled the malicious botnet, the people behind it are still outlawed. The verification of the identity of the creators of Retadup malware is being urgently deployed by C3N, but it is not simple.

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French police successfully cracked down on a botnet that exploits 850,000 computers from more than 100 countries. Picture 4 The battle against cryptocurrency activities has not yet been concluded

Although the value of cryptocurrencies has been declining after a short time with signs of prosperity, illegal cryptocurrency mining activity has never been 'hot'. Global cyber crime community. The fight against the criminal activities in the field of cryptocurrencies in particular and global cyber security in general has been, is, and will still be very tough.