Botnet smashed: At Zloader, it's out of the question
Coordinated strike against global botnet succeeded: In a joint action with Microsoft, Lumen Black Lotus Labs and Palo Alto Networks, ESET has succeeded in deactivating the global botnet Zloader. The aim was to paralyze the infrastructure and massively restrict the group's activities. The eCrime group behind it was initially extremely active in the area of banking fraud and password theft in recent years. Later, the perpetrators expanded their portfolio and offered Zloader on underground forums as "Malware as a Service". The underlying malware of the same name was originally developed as a banking Trojan based on the 2021…
