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The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown

Posted by samzenpus on from the with-a-little-help-from-my-friends dept.

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."

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  1. Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit by uufnord · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... what, do they arrest themselves?

    1. Re:Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit by Megaweapon · · Score: 3, Funny

      I wonder if they ever caught the guy responsible for Windows ME.

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  2. Created by Dick Wolf by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The company worked closely with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU)...."

    These are their stories.

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  3. Re:Uhm... by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  4. Re:Fuck fuck fuck fuck shut up yo! Serially! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was it 867-5309?