When what you can remotely exploit, you can remotely remove.
In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by sapping power from a computer’s processor. Although the malware was used to generate money, the malware operators easily could have run other […]
Source: Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections – TechCrunch