Denmark Hits a Ransomware Network
Ordinary websites were helping criminals reach new victims. Danish police and their partners went into those sites to remove the software behind the scheme.
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Denmark’s National Special Crime Unit said on November 12 that it and police in other countries had removed Gootloader malware from 681 websites built with WordPress. The joint operation also took down 218 domains and 14 servers. Dutch police said all 14 servers were in the Netherlands.
The Danish unit investigates serious…
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