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Subject: [ISN] Court order cripples Coreflood botnet, says FBI
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2011-04-27 7:51:43
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1104270251340.12796 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216190/Court_order_cripples_Coreflood_botnet_says_FBI
By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
April 26, 2011
Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said a federal
temporary restraining order has crippled the Coreflood botnet in the
U.S., Microsoft today took the unusual step of pushing a second version
of its monthly malware cleaner to Windows users to again quash the
botnet.
Coreflood made the news earlier this month when the U.S. Department of
Justice (DOJ) and FBI obtained an unprecedented temporary restraining
order that allowed them to seize command-and-control servers that
managed the botnet's estimated 2.3 million compromised PCs.
Those servers were replaced by government-controlled systems.
The court order also allowed the DOJ and FBI to issue commands using
those replacement servers that disabled, but did not uninstall,
Coreflood on infected PCs that asked for new commands.
In an affidavit filed in a Connecticut federal court last Saturday, FBI
Special Agent Briana Neumiller said that the server seizure and
"kill-switch" instructions issued to the malware have crippled the
botnet.
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