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.'"

Comments

Yay!! KILL THE COMMIES TO HELL AND MOSCOW !!

[Anonymous Coward]

We don't need no stinkin' commies on this here AMERICAN internet.

Re:Words

[MrMista_B]

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

Re:Windows again

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Windows has nothing to do with it you moron. Give your mom root and she'll fuck up her Linux box once more than 10 people use Linux so that malware actually gets written for it.

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.