Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out

itwbennett writes "Ninety of the 249 Zeus command-and-control servers were knocked offline overnight when two ISPs, named Troyak and Group 3, were taken offline. Whoever was behind the takedown 'just decided to knock out a large area of cyber-crime, and this was probably one of the easiest ways to do it,' said Kevin Stevens, a researcher with SecureWorks. As with the McColo takedown of just over a year ago, Troyak's upstream providers seem to have knocked it off the Internet, Cisco said in a statement. 'The ISP was "De-peered,"' Cisco said. 'Troyak's upstream network providers effectively pulled the plug on Troyak's router, refusing to transmit its traffic.'"

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Re:Words

[MrMista_B]

You suck at reading comprehension, huh? Yes, yes they ere removed from the internet, 'somehow'.

Re:Good

[Renraku]

Hey, great idea.

Let's just allow Microsoft to patch in whatever the hell they want with no regard for legality or ethics. I'll agree to turn autoupdates on whenever I trust Microsoft farther than to decide my copy is fake and lock me out of it. When they stop telling me to buy a new copy because I bought a new motherboard. When they stop adding in secret back doors for various security agencies.