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The FBI has scrubbed some 19,000 PCs that were infected with the Coreflood bot malware; the agency told a federal court last week. The effort is part of an ongoing and unprecedented anti- cybercrime campaign to destroy one of the longest-running and most menacing online crime machines ever built.
Last April, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Connecticut filed a civil complaint against 13 unknown (John Doe) cybercrime defendants responsible for running Coreflood, and was granted authority to seize 29 domain names used to control the daily operations of the botnet.
No U.S. law enforcement authority has ever sought to commandeer a botnet using such an approach. Last year, Dutch authorities took down the Bredolab botnet using a similar method that directed affected users to a Web page warning of the infection. Last month, Microsoft took down the Rustock spam botnet by convincing a court to grant it control over both the botnets control domains and the hard drives used by those control servers. Full Story: FBI Scrubbed 19,000 PCs.
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Stu Sjouwerman
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[/caption]The FBI has scrubbed some 19,000 PCs that were infected with the Coreflood bot malware; the agency told a federal court last week. The effort is part of an ongoing and unprecedented anti- cybercrime campaign to destroy one of the longest-running and most menacing online crime machines ever built.
Last April, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Connecticut filed a civil complaint against 13 unknown (John Doe) cybercrime defendants responsible for running Coreflood, and was granted authority to seize 29 domain names used to control the daily operations of the botnet.
No U.S. law enforcement authority has ever sought to commandeer a botnet using such an approach. Last year, Dutch authorities took down the Bredolab botnet using a similar method that directed affected users to a Web page warning of the infection. Last month, Microsoft took down the Rustock spam botnet by convincing a court to grant it control over both the botnets control domains and the hard drives used by those control servers. Full Story: FBI Scrubbed 19,000 PCs.
Proof up your employees against cybercrime with Internet security awareness training. Take a free Internet security phishing test!
Stu Sjouwerman
KnowBe4
