French Police Shut Down 850,000 Device Botnet
Return To ArticleAuthorities in France say they have shut down a cryptocurrency mining botnet that had infected more than 850,000 computers across 100 countries.
The chief of C3N, Jean-Dominique Nollet, told France Inter Radio how authorities were able to shut down the botnet and put a halt to its nefarious activity.
“Basically, we managed to detect where was the command server, the control tower of the network of infected computers, the ‘botnet,’” said Jean-Dominique Nollet to France Inter Radio. “It was copied, replicated with a server of ours, and made to do things that allow the virus to be idle on the victims’ computers,” CoinDesk reports.
