French police say they have disrupted the operations of the Retadup malware gang. French police subverted attackers’ command-and-control infrastructure to delete the malicious code from 850,000 infected PCs and servers worldwide. The move came after police received a tip and technical assistance from Czech security firm Avast. Police estimate that the gang was earning at least several million dollars in illegal proceeds annually, much of it from stealthy, passive mining operations. Most of the infections were being used to mine for monero cryptocurrency.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/police-trick-malware-gang-into-disinfecting-850000-systems-a-12989