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NEWS: Cybercrime network busted by ‘Operation Duck Hunt’

By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi

Intelligence agencies from seven countries have taken down a notorious piece of malware used by cybercriminals to target hundreds of thousands of victims.

The US Department of Justice said that the FBI, along with agencies in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Latvia, had successfully concluded Operation Duck Hunt, which had neutralised a program known as Qakbot.

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