The good guys win a small victory
The odds are on the side of the cybercriminals and their botnets but now and then there’s a small triumph for our side. A major botnet has been temporarily stymied; Ars Technica reports:
Security researchers have taken down a major spam offender, though the dip in spam levels may be only temporary. Members of the FireEye security team coordinated an attack on the Mega-D botnet (also known as Ozdok) last week by preemptively registering domains meant for the botnet’s command and control channels (CnCs) and shutting down others. Spam coming from Mega-D stopped almost instantly, proving that David really can take down Goliath every once in a while.
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