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Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet

Sorry about your servers, they fell down some stairs The Bamital web-search-hijacking botnet has been taken down by security researchers from Microsoft and Symantec with help from the Feds. The crack unit raided a number of data centres where the botnet’s servers were located.…

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Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet

Microsoft's study into unsecure supply chains leads to botnet disruption

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has disrupted the functioning of yet another botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain which was also hosting over 500 different strains of malware and has been linked…

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Microsoft's study into unsecure supply chains leads to botnet disruption