Europol, with assistance from Microsoft, Symantec, and Anubis Networks, has identified and seized the servers thought to be at the core of Ramnit‘s infrastructure.

Ramnit began operations in 2010, and has evolved from a simple worm to include advanced features for stealing personal/banking information and self-propagation. In its latest incarnation, Ramnit is capable of compromising infected computers in numerous ways. In 2012, Ramnit was used to gain access to 45,000 Facebook accounts.

Only time will tell whether this crackdown has actually succeeded in ridding the world of this particular piece of malware.