https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59571417

"Google sues alleged Russian cyber criminals

Google has sued hackers believed to be part of a cybercrime gang that
has stolen user information from around the world.

A complaint names two Russians and 15 unknown individuals said to be
behind Glupteba, a malicious "botnet" that has infected over a million
computers.

[...]

Glupteba's malicious software - which was first detected in 2011 - is
spread by third-party download sites, online movie streaming services
and a website which fraudulently purported to be affiliated with
YouTube, which is owned by Google.

[...]

In a blog post, Google disclosed that a company investigation had found
Glupteba currently involved approximately a million compromised Windows
devices.

At times, the botnet is believed to grow at a rate of thousands of new
devices per day.

"Glupteba is notorious for stealing users' credentials and data, mining
cryptocurrencies on infected hosts, and setting up proxies to funnel
other people's internet traffic through infected machines and routers,"
the blog post said."

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