The French National Gendarmerie teamed up with security researchers Avast to make a botnet with close to one million devices self-destruct.
Avast has been tracking the malware called Retadup for some time. The malware affects Windows machines and has spread at a rapid pace across the world, including the US, Russia, and Central and South America.
Retadup was designed to make money through mining cryptocurrency, an increasingly popular type of attack. However, it’s noted the malware could have been used…
