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#6 The Hacker News general October 27, 2026 at 09:33 UTC

Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Australia's Signals Directorate (ASD) conducted an offensive cyber operation against the Amadey malware backend, successfully severing the threat actor's access to approximately 180,000 infected computers worldwide. ASD operators gained access to the criminal operation's command-and-control infrastructure and cut off the controller's connection to all victim machines. This marks a notable example of a national intelligence agency using offensive access to a botnet backend for defensive disruption at scale.

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