Avast: 5,9 million Emotet attacks blocked
This week law enforcement agencies around the world successfully disarmed the Emotet botnet. Avast alone, a leading provider of solutions for digital security and privacy, claims to have blocked more than 2020 million Emotet attacks on its users worldwide in 5,9. In one of the largest and most effective global takedown operations to date, police forces from Canada, France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the US, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, took control of Emotet's servers. This gave them access to the botnet and also the ...