Microsoft attempts takedown of global criminal botnet

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Microsoft says it has taken legal action seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware

The operation to knock offline command-and-control servers for a global botnet that uses an infrastructure known as Trickbot to infect computers with malware was initiated with a court order that Microsoft obtained in Virginia federal court on Oct. 6. Microsoft argued that the crime network is abusing its trademark.

 

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The only way that they can do that successfully is by committing corporate suicide. Unwanted bots do not generally affect other operating systems. They could instead dump their own virus-prone OS and write app code for Linux.

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