Australia severs Amadey control of about 180,000 infected computers
Original title: Australia severs criminal access to 180,000 computers after breaching Amadey malware backend
ASD operators accessed the Amadey backend and cut controller links without touching the infected machines.
The Australian Signals Directorate gained access to the Amadey malware operation’s backend and disconnected its controller from about 180,000 infected computers, according to Tauri Gregory in an ABC News interview published October 27. ASD can disable overseas criminal infrastructure with explicit Australian government approval and without touching victim machines. Criminal operators using Amadey lost that control.
Unconfirmed: The account relies on ASD comments in an ABC News interview reported via LavX.hu.
- About 180,000 infected computers were disconnected from the Amadey controller.
- Gregory is ASD’s acting deputy director-general of intelligence.
- Offensive cyber operations need explicit Australian government approval.
- The agency did not touch the infected machines themselves.
Impact: Criminals lost control of about 180,000 infected computers
- Malware
- Amadey
- Organizations
- Australian Signals Directorate
- Countries
- Australia
From the original article
2 min read at databreaches.netLukas Brandt writes: Criminals using the Amadey malware lost control of about 180,000 infected computers after operators from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) gained access to the operation’s backend and severed the connection between the controllers and the victims. “The next steps that we took were to disconnect that Amadey controller from all those victims,”...
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