![]() The number of Gameover Zeus infections has dropped 31 percent since June 6, shortly after a law enforcement operation seized the command-and-control servers communicating with infected systems. Solution providers told CRN that the Cryptolocker attacks plagued many of their customers, including small and midsize businesses that were forced to wipe systems completely and restore from backup. District Court of Western Pennsylvania Friday.īogachev is still being sought by police and remains on the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List. “Government testing of Cryptolocker malware samples has confirmed that Cryptolocker is no longer able to encrypt newly infected computers and, as a result, is not currently a threat,” the government said in an update filed in the U.S. ![]() The Gameover Zeus botnet and Cryptolocker infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world and generated losses exceeding $100 million. Bogachev controlled the Gameover Zeus infrastructure and may have masterminded the attack campaign. The government believes 30-year-old Russian computer programmer Evgeniy M. The Department of Justice declared victory over the Cryptolocker Trojan, calling its global operation against the Gameover Zeus botnet effective in completely knocking out the infrastructure used to communicate with the notorious ransomware.Ĭryptolocker emerged in 2013, crippling consumer and business PCs by encrypting the files and demanding victims pay a fee for the key to access the files.
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