The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown 83
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."
Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (Score:2, Funny)
Created by Dick Wolf (Score:5, Funny)
"The company worked closely with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU)...."
These are their stories.
Re:Uhm... (Score:2, Funny)
So in other words, we have large corporations vs. organized crime. I fail to see how Kapersky and Microsoft lose.
Um.. probably because large corporations always win.
Going to get down modded for WOOSH. Just watch.
Re:Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder if they ever caught the guy responsible for Windows ME.
Re:Fuck fuck fuck fuck shut up yo! Serially! (Score:2, Funny)
Was it 867-5309?