The infrastructure of the most dangerous botnet to date, Emotet, was disrupted as part of a coordinated operation by Europol and Eurojust. As a result of a collaborative effort between  law enforcement authorities in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, Lithuania, Canada and Ukraine, specialists managed to seize control of the botnet's servers, shut down its entire infrastructure and stop malicious activity.

Emotet was first discovered as a banking Trojan in 2014, but later expanded to become one of the world's most malicious networks. It spreads by installing a backdoor on computers running Windows. To achieve this, phishing emails with Word documents that have been compromised with malicious software are used.

As Europol explained, the Emotet infrastructure included hundreds of servers around the world performing various functions, including the functions of managing infected computers, infecting new systems, etc. Law enforcement officials have taken control of the Emotet infrastructure, which consists of hundreds of servers around the world.