MS Action against Nitol botnet

[Maurice Naggar]

Earlier this week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit permission to disrupt more than 500 different strains of malware with the potential for targeting millions of innocent people. Codenamed “Operation b70,” this legal action and technical disruption proceeded from a Microsoft study which found that cybercriminals infiltrate unsecure supply chains to introduce counterfeit software embedded with malware for the purpose of secretly infecting people’s computers. In disrupting these malware strains, we helped significantly limit the spread of the developing Nitol botnet, our second botnet disruption in the last six months.

Source: http://blogs.technet...pply-chain.aspx

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Microsoft finds malware on new computers in China

By Richard Lardner

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[daledoc1]

we helped significantly limit the spread of the developing Nitol botnet, our second botnet disruption in the last six months.

Happy Days!

We Spam Hunters can take a vacation?

<just kidding>

Seriously, though -- scary about finding malware on NEW computers!