Botnet was mostly used for cryptojacking, but also spread Stop ransomware and info stealer. Most victims were in Spanish-speaking countries, with Peru leading the pack with 320,000 infections. Most of the botnet’s infrastructure was located in France, so authorities in the country were contacted and presented the solution. Botnet’s C2 was taken down by security researchers from antivirus maker Avast working with the French National Gendarmerie. Most infected machines were running Windows 7 and had two or four cores with the default antivirus.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-operation-making-millions-defeated-by-design-flaw/