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Australia's cyber agency severed Amadey malware botnet control
Original: 🤖 Australia's ASD operators gained access to an Amadey malware operator's backend and cut its C2 controller off from ~18
Australia's Signals Directorate says its operators accessed the backend of an Amadey malware operation and disconnected its command-and-control server from roughly 180,000 infected machines worldwide. The malware remains on compromised hosts, but the criminal operator has lost the ability to control the bots or harvest data from them. Commentators are highlighting it as an unusually proactive, offensive-leaning cyber defence move by a government agency, and debating how long the disruption will last before the attacker rebuilds infrastructure.
Why now: A rare public account of a government agency directly disrupting a major malware botnet has drawn wide attention in security circles.
Australian Signals DirectorateAmadey malwareAustralia
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- 🤖 Australia's ASD operators gained access to an Amadey malware operator's backend and cut its C2 controller off from ~180,000 infected machines worldwide. The malware itself stays on the hosts — the criminal just lost control and data access. 🔗 https://… · cloud@infosec.exchange · 1
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