Ramnit Botnet Disrupted By International Public-Private Collaboration

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Ramnit Botnet Disrupted By International Public-Private Collaboration

Europol leads the effort to bring down the bank credential-stealing botnet that infected 3.2 million computers across the globe.

Europol's Cybercrime Centre (EC3), with assistance from Symantec, Microsoft, and Anubis Networks, shut down command-and-control servers and redirected 300 domains used by the Ramnit botnet, used mostly for stealing banking credentials. EC3 announced today that the operation was conducted from The Hague on Tuesday and included representatives from the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.