Police Hijack a Botnet and Remotely Kill 850,000 Malware Infections

In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by sapping power from a computer’s processor.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/01/police-botnet-takedown-infections/