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DanaBot takedown shows how agentic AI cut months of SOC analysis to weeks
Agentic AI played a decisive role in dismantling DanaBot, a Russian malware platform responsible for more than 50 million dollars in damages.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justiceunsealed a federal indictment in Los Angeles against 16 defendants of DanaBot, a Russia-based malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation responsible for orchestrating massive fraud schemes, enabling ransomware attacks and inflicting tens of millions of dollars in financial losses to victims. Source: Team Cymru and Lumen Technologies Agentic AI played a central role in dismantling DanaBot, orchestrating predictive threat modeling, real-time telemetry correlation, infrastructure analysis and autonomous anomaly detection. Built as a multi-tiered, modular botnet leased to affiliates, DanaBot rapidly adapted and scaled, rendering static rule-based SOC defenses, including legacy SIEMs and intrusion detection systems, useless.
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