With a lightning intervention, the federal authorities dismantled the infrastructure of Warzone RATtool used by cybercriminali to hack computers and steal sensitive data on devices.
The operations were apparently directed by the authorities of various nations who carried out the shutting down websites and thearrest of people involved in the platform, with coordinated interventions a Malta e in Nigeria.
Specifically, those who were arrested would be Daniel Meliaged 27, reached by the police in Malta and Minister Odinakachi, 31 year old Nigerian. We are talking about charges such as unauthorized access to third party computers, sale and advertising of illegal products and involvement in a criminal conspiracy aimed at computer crimes.
According to what was stated by the deputy director of the Cyber Division of theFBI Brian Vorndran “This action highlights the FBI’s commitment to countering cybercrime actors and destroying their infrastructure“.
Warzone RAT: FBI-run operation led to arrests in Malta and Nigeria
In addition to the famous American government agency, law enforcement agencies from several countries such as Malta, Australia, Croatia, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Romania and Canada were also involved in the operation.
Warzone RAT, also known as Ave Mariait’s a remote access trojan (RAT) distributed through the formula Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS). This malicious agent was first identified at the beginning 2019 and, since then, the same has spread rapidly throughout the world. The malware has long been distributed with subscriptions of just under $40, which greatly favored its spread.
Among the campaigns carried out with this trojan are attacks on government and military entities of different countries such as India, China and other countries from South Asia.
The blitz that led to the dismantling of the infrastructure is certainly not the first of its kind. Last December, the FBI intervened to effectively combat the ransomware BlackCat.