French cops take down hacking ring
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French police have neutralized a hacking operation that had taken control of more than 850,000 computers, mainly in Latin America, while also managing to remove the malware from the infected devices.
The agents went into action last spring after the Czech antivirus firm Avast alerted them to the software worm, called Retadup, that was being controlled by a server in the Paris region.
The C3N cybercrime unit at the French gendarmerie, which carried out the counterattack with help from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, called it a 鈥渨orld first鈥 in a statement late Tuesday.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a huge operation鈥 given the number of computers infected, said Gerome Billois, a cybersecurity expert at the French IT services firm Wavestone.
Police first made a copy of the server orchestrating the attack, which allowed them to then hack into it and surreptitiously take control.
They then ordered all the infected computers to uninstall the Retadup malware, which police said was allowing the pirates to create the Monero cryptocurrency.
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