Microsoft has brought a major botnet to its knees using a combined technical and legal strategy that it expects to deploy again. Earlier this week, a federal judge granted Microsoft a temporary restraining order that cut off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by criminals as the Waledac bot, according to an official company blog post. That cut off traffic to Waledac at the “.com” or domain registry level — essentially severing the tie between the botnet’s command-and-control centers and most of its thousands of zombie computers around the world.
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Microsoft Gets Court Nod to Cripple Spam-Spewing Botnet
Posted by: Erika Morphy February 25, 2010 01:50 PMMicrosoft has brought a major botnet to its knees using a combined technical and legal strategy that it expects to deploy again. Earlier this week, a federal judge granted Microsoft a temporary restraining order that cut off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by criminals as the Waledac bot, according to an official company blog post. That cut off traffic to Waledac at the “.com” or domain registry level — essentially severing the tie between the botnet’s command-and-control centers and most of its thousands of zombie computers around the world.