The Pittsburgh-based U.S. Attorney’s Office and the regional division of the FBI announced a joint effort with international law enforcement agencies Thursday to dismantle the global criminal computer network known as “Avalanche.”
Avalanche is responsible for operating an international server that hosts “more than two dozen of the world’s most pernicious types of malware and several money laundering campaigns,” according to a joint statement from Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, and acting U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
