Feds finger Russian 'behind Qakbot malware' that hit 700K computers

Agents thought they shut this all down in 2023, but the duck quacked again
Uncle Sam on Thursday unsealed criminal charges and a civil forfeiture case against a Russian national accused of leading the cybercrime ring behind Qakbot, the notorious malware that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and helped fuel ransomware attacks costing victims tens of millions of dollars.…