DOJ Gets Court Permission To Attack Botnet

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:42PM from the getting-the-greenlight dept.

itwbennett writes "In an unprecedented move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI have been issued a temporary restraining order that will allow the FBI and the US Marshal for the District of Connecticut to set up servers at the Internet Systems Consortium or other ISPs that would stop infected computers from continuing to spread the Coreflood virus, according to court records. This week, the DOJ and FBI seized five servers that controlled Coreflood-infected computers, the DOJ said in a press release. The agencies also seized 29 domain names used by the Coreflood botnet to communicate with the servers."

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Send in the drones! by zill · 2011-04-13 13:24 · Score: 0, Troll

DoJ? Pssh, those guys are too bogged down in red tape.

We should leave this matter to DoD. Instead of deploying the drones in Pakistan, we should target the botnet controllers instead. If we're gonna do extrajudicial killings, might as well target people who actually harm the country.