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US, UK disrupt Dridex botnet, which targeted online banking

Andrey Ghinkul, 30, is accused of being the administrator of the Dridex botnet, also known as Cridex and Bugat. A nine-count indictment was unsealed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, DOJ said. Ghinkur was arrested on Aug. 28 in Cyprus and is being held in Cyprus. DrideX is considered one of the top banking malware families. It collects online banking credentials from infected computers, which prosecutors said were then used to initiate wire transfers.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2992606/us-uk-disrupt-dridex-botnet-which-targeted-online-banking.html

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