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Google announced on Wednesday that it had received a temporary court order in the United States to stop the propagation of the Windows-based malware CryptBot and "decelerate" its expansion. Mike Trinh and Pierre-Marc Bureau of the internet giant said the initiatives are a part of actions it takes to "hold criminal malware operators accountable, as well as those who profit from its distribution." According to estimates, CryptBot will have infected over 670,000 machines by the year 2022 with the intention of collecting private information from Google Chrome users, including login information for social media accounts, authentication credentials, and cryptocurrency wallets. The collected data is subsequently stolen and sold to threat actors, who utilize it in data breach campaigns a...