Microsoft managed to close another big botnet. A year after defeating the botnet Waledac company from Redmond Rustockowi struck the final blow. Corporation by a judicial lawsuit against the anonymous operator Rustock, complaining that it violates his trademarks. He managed to get the court's consent to the physical seizure of a botnet server. Of course, this was done in collaboration with the relevant authorities. On the basis of a court order seized five servers hosting companies in seven U.S. cities. Also seized control of the IP addresses used by the botnet. "Now we work with ISPs and security specialists and help owners of computers around the world in cleaning their machinery with the botnet code - said Richard Boscovich of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit. The main lesson of our work is that if we are to succeed in the fight against botnets, we must work together - he added.
Experts estimate that the botnet was connected to a million computers. Rustock could send 30 billion emails per day.
Botnet - a group of computers infected with malicious software (such as a worm), remaining in hiding from the user and allows the designer to exercise remote control over all computers in a botnet. This control allows you to remotely spamming and other attacks using infected computers.
