<ul><li>The U.S. government unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a malware specializing in credential theft and banking fraud.</li><li>DanaBot's newer version was used for espionage, with the defendants accidentally infecting their own systems with the malware, exposing their real identities.</li><li>The malware infected over 300,000 systems globally, leading to estimated losses of more than $50 million; the ringleaders are named as Aleksandr Stepanov and Artem Aleksandrovich Kalinkin.</li><li>The FBI seized servers used by DanaBot authors in 2022, and industry partners are assisting in notifying victims and remediating infections.</li></ul>

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