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December 1, 2016

‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled

This post was originally published on this siteIn what’s being billed as an unprecedented global law enforcement response to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe today say they’ve dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed, cloud-hosting network that for the past seven years has been rented out to fraudsters for use in launching countless malware and phishing attacks. The global distribution of servers used in the Avalanche crime machine. Source: Shadowserver.org According to Europol, the action was the result of a four-year joint investigation between Europol, Eurojust the FBI and authorities in the […]