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Google obtained a temporary court order against CryptBot distributors

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The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021. The operators behind the botnet, however, recovered their operations in June 2022 and launched a new campaign after the Google lawsuit.