DOJ, FBI Aiding in Dismantling Avalanche Cybercrime Network
Federal law enforcement agencies began aiding a multinational operation to dismantle the Avalanche cybercrime network, DOJ said Thursday. The Avalanche network has hosted more than two dozen types of “pernicious” malware and several money laundering schemes, Justice said. The enforcement…
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operation resulted in the shutdown of more than 50 Avalanche servers and led to arrests and searches in five countries, DOJ said. The department's Computer Crime and IP Section and the FBI's Pittsburgh division are helping the operation, which also includes Europol, Eurojust and agencies in more than 40 other countries, it said. “The operation involves an unprecedented and ongoing effort to seize, block and sinkhole more than 800,000 malicious domains associated with the Avalanche network,” said Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell and other officials in a news release.