One of the World's Largest Botnets Has Vanished
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With no warning, one of the world's largest criminal botnets—a massive collection of computers used to launch attacks—has disappeared. Researchers have reported huge drops in traffic for two of the most popular pieces of malware which rely on it.
“We can only tell that the Dridex and Locky spam campaigns stopped since June 1 in our observation. We cannot confirm how the botnet was brought down yet,” Joonho Sa, a researcher for cybersecurity company FireEye, told Motherboard in an email.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-the-worlds-largest-botnets-has-vanished
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Ooooooooh, that may not be good news...it might have gone away for a makeover or worse. Let's hope that this is not the case and it is in fact gone for good.
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It does sound like good news but I DO hope it has gone for good, we may just find more out over the coming weeks.
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