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Microsoft and partners disrupt Zeus botnets

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Mar

2012

We have discussed in the past our collaboration with external parties to combat botnet threats to further the betterment of the Internet, such as Operations b49, b107 and b79. This week, Microsoft has partnered with security experts and the financial services industry on a new action codenamed Operation b71 to disrupt some of the worst […]

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The where and why of HLUX

15

Feb

2012

This is not the first time the HLUX botnet has been mentioned in this blog, but there are still some unanswered questions that we’ve been receiving from the media: What is the botnet’s sphere of activity? What sort of commands does it receive from malicious users? How does the bot spread? How many infected computers […]

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Microsoft’s Kelihos botnet suspect used to work for computer security firm

24

Jan

2012

Microsoft has named a 31-year-old Russian, who used to work at a firm producing anti-virus and firewall software, believing him to be responsible for attacks perpetrated by the Kelihos botnet. Andrey Sabelnikov, of St Petersburg, Russia, has been named in an amended complaint filed by the software giant with the US District Court. Microsoft says […]

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