{"id":1424,"date":"2019-09-03T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2019-09-03T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:09:38","slug":"police-hijack-a-botnet-and-remotely-kill-850000-malware-infections-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/police-hijack-a-botnet-and-remotely-kill-850000-malware-infections-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections \u2013 TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When what you can remotely exploit, you can remotely remove.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/09\/01\/police-botnet-takedown-infections\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/asset-management.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s processor. Although the malware was used to generate money, the malware operators easily could have run other [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/09\/01\/police-botnet-takedown-infections\/\">Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections \u2013 TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s processor. Although the malware was used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}