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    Researchers helped French police dismantle a crypto-mining botnet

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    Georgina Torbet
    Georgina Torbet
    09.02.2019

    It seems like every week there's news of a new piece of malware being used to steal user data or to take control of devices. For once, though, there's some good news in the war on intrusive software: A botnet which was spreading crypto-mining malware has been taken over by police and used to remove the malware from infected computers.