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Subject: [ISN] Microsoft Liberates More Than 1.2 Million PCs From Citadel Botnet
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-06-21 9:24:37
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1306210924240.14989 () infosecnews ! org
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By Robert Lemos
eWEEK.com
2013-06-20
Initial numbers shared by the software giant suggest that its disruption
of the Citadel botnet has resulted in criminals losing control over more
than a million PCs.
A team of industry and law enforcement partners—including Microsoft, the
FBI and financial firms—have successfully disrupted a collection of
botnets running on the Citadel Trojan, freeing more than 1.2 million
computers from the control of cybercriminals, Microsoft's Digital Crimes
Unit said this week.
On June 6, Microsoft announced that it had executed its seventh operation
against botnet operators, aiming to significantly disrupt a collection of
nearly 1,500 botnets running on the Citadel Trojan. Normally, computers
compromised with Citadel would attempt to connect to certain domains and
receive orders, but Microsoft and computer emergency response teams around
the world redirected many of those domains.
The domains that Microsoft gained control of through a court order were
redirected, or "sinkholed," to company-controlled infrastructure, which
Microsoft monitors to gauge the size of the botnets.
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