Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers

ASD Cuts Off Amadey Malware From 180,000 Infected Computers

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) disrupted a major Amadey malware operation, severing the criminal’s access to 180,000 infected computers worldwide. […]

Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers

A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's operation's backend and cut it off from those computers. "The next steps that we took were to disconnect that Amadey controller from all those