On 29 November 2017, the FBI, in close cooperation with European authorities and some private security vendors dismantled one of the longest running malware families in existence called Andromeda (also known as Gamarue).
This widely distributed malware created a network of infected computers called the Andromeda botnet . According to Microsoft, Andromeda’s main goal was to distribute other malware families. Andromeda was associated with 80 malware families.