Microsoft says its taken down another big[FONT=inherit ! important][FONT=inherit ! important] botnet[/FONT][/FONT] that was delivering up to four million spam messages per day.
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The [/FONT][/FONT] filed a complaint in the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, accusing 22 John Doe defendants along with dotFREE SRO and Dominique Alexander Piatti of hosting the Kelihos botnet, also known as Waledac 2.0.
Through the cz.cc service, says Microsoft, they issued more than 3,700 subdomains, at least some of which were used to operate and control the botnet. Around 41,000 were beleived to have been infected.
"Our investigation showed that while some of the defendant
The [/FONT][/FONT] filed a complaint in the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, accusing 22 John Doe defendants along with dotFREE SRO and Dominique Alexander Piatti of hosting the Kelihos botnet, also known as Waledac 2.0.
Through the cz.cc service, says Microsoft, they issued more than 3,700 subdomains, at least some of which were used to operate and control the botnet. Around 41,000 were beleived to have been infected.
"Our investigation showed that while some of the defendant