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September 30, 2011 02:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aIRgrUqmphQ/The-Inside-Story-of-the-Kelihos-Takedown
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown
Trailrunner7 writes "Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of the Kelihos botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. The botnet had a complex, multi-tiered architecture as well as a custom communication protocol and three-level encryption. Kaspersky Lab researchers did the heavy lifting, reversing the protocol and cracking the encryption and then sink-holing the botnet. The company worked closely with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), sharing the relevant information and providing them with access to our live botnet tracking system."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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