Legal raids in five countries seize botnet servers, sinkhole 800,000+ domains

Enlarge / Avalanche once hosted ransomware that spoofed messages from law enforcement. Now, a team of 40 law enforcement agencies has shut it down.Symantec reader comments 27 Share this story [Update, 3:00 PM EDT: This story has been updated with additional details from The Shadowserver Foundation and Europol.

Article Link: http://cyberparse.co.uk/2016/12/01/legal-raids-in-five-countries-seize-botnet-servers-sinkhole-800000-domains/