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

A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world after operators at the Australian Signals Directorate gained access to the operation’s backend and cut it off, the agency says. The infected computers included some in Australia; the ASD says its next steps disconnected the Amadey controller from all of those machines.