9,000 servers in Southeast Asia found to be infected

SINGAPORE: An anti-cybercrime operation by Interpol and investigators from seven southeast Asian nations revealed nearly 9,000 malware-laden servers and hundreds of compromised websites in the ASEAN region, Interpol said on Monday. Various types of malware, such as that targeting financial institutions, spreading ransomware, launching Distributed Denial of Service attacks and distributing spam were among the threats posed by the infected servers, the operation showed. It also identified 270 sites infected with a malware code, including several government websites.