October 26, 2015 04:00 pm
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Despite Takedown, the Dridex Botnet Is Running Again
itwbennett writes: Brad Duncan, a security researcher with Rackspace, on Friday wrote on the Internet Storm Center blog that 'the Dridex botnet administrator was arrested on 2015-08-28, and Palo Alto Networks reported Dridex was back by 2015-10-01. That represents an outage of approximately one month.' The lesson here, writes Jeremy Kirk in an article on CSOonline is that 'while law enforcement can claim temporary victories in fighting cybercriminal networks, it's sometimes difficult to completely shut down their operations.'Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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