Law enforcement hits SocGholish: 106 servers down, 15,000 sites cleaned (opens in new tab)

SocGholish, an operation that’s been delivering malware to users via fake software updates, has suffered a major blow: the international law enforcement coalition behind Operation Endgame has taken down 106 of its servers and domains, and cleaned up nearly 15,000 websites compromised to serve their malicious payloads. The result of this most recent multinational law enforcement action was announced today by the Dutch National Police and on the operation’s website. How SocGholish infects victi...