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Paris, France:
French authorities have launched a major operation to clean up computers infected by a cyber-espionage programme that has struck millions of users worldwide, a senior prosecutor said Thursday.
« On the eve of the Olympics, this operation demonstrates that different players in France and abroad are mobilised to fight against all forms of cybercrime, » Paris chief prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.
She said investigators were targeting a network of bots suspected of infecting computers with PlugX malware and of stealing data from them « notably for purposes of espionage ».
She said analysts and investigators had managed to take control of a server that was controlling millions of the infected computers and were administering a fix.
They launched the operation on July 18 and it is expected to last several months, having already aided victims in several European countries, the statement said.
It did not cite a specific threat to the Paris Olympics. But separately, the French government’s cyber security agency warned last week that ransomware attacks will be « inevitable » during the Games, which officially open Friday.
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