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AnonTechie writes:

European law enforcement agencies seized command-and-control servers used by Ramnit, a malware program that steals online banking credentials, FTP passwords, session cookies and personal files from victims.

Ramnit started out in 2010 as a computer worm capable of infecting EXE, DLL, HTM, and HTML files. However, over time it evolved into an information-stealing Trojan that’s distributed in a variety of ways.

Ramnit is capable of hijacking online banking sessions, stealing session cookies which can then be used to access accounts on various sites, copying sensitive files from hard drives, giving attackers remote access to infected computers and more.

Researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec described the malware program as “a fully-featured cybercrime tool” in a blog post Wednesday ( http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ramnit-cybercrime-group-hit-major-law-enforcement-operation ) and said that it infected over 3.2 million computers over its five years of existence.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2889092/europol-and-security-vendors-disrupt-massive-ramnit-botnet.html