{"id":190274,"date":"2016-12-02T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190274"},"modified":"2016-12-02T07:36:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:36:16","slug":"huge-avalanche-botnet-taken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/190274-huge-avalanche-botnet-taken-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Huge Avalanche botnet taken down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 November, after more than four years of investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/newsroom\/news\/%E2%80%98avalanche%E2%80%99-network-dismantled-in-international-cyber-operation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>global authorities dismantled<\/strong><\/a> an international criminal infrastructure platform known as Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was a joint effort between Europol, the US Attorney\u2019s Office, the FBI, Eurojust, and global partners.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche network was used as a delivery platform to launch and manage mass global malware attacks and money mule recruiting campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>It caused an estimated \u20ac6 million in damages in cyberattacks on online banking systems in Germany alone.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the monetary losses associated with malware attacks conducted over the network are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n<p>The takedown saw five\u00a0individuals arrested, 37 premises searched, and 39 servers seized.<\/p>\n<p>Victims of malware infections were identified in over 180 countries and 221 servers were put offline through abuse notifications sent to hosting providers.<\/p>\n<p>The operation marks the largest-ever use of sinkholing to combat botnet infrastructures &#8211; with over 800,000 domains seized, sinkholed, or blocked.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/189544-mirai-ddos-botnet-for-rent.html\">Mirai DDoS botnet for rent<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global authorities have dismantled an international criminal infrastructure platform known as Avalanche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,40038,2822],"class_list":["post-190274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-avalanche","tag-botnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190284,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190274\/revisions\/190284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}