Australian Signals Directorate cuts criminal access to 180,000 computers infected with Amadey malware
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Australia's signals intelligence agency broke into the control system behind a piece of malware called Amadey. It then cut the link between the criminal running it and about 180,000 infected computers around the world, some of them in Australia. The criminal can no longer reach those machines or steal data from them.
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