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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. 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)

  2. 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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  3. Re:Microsoft cleans up the mess it created. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah because nobody else has a security problem with their software or setup.

    http://kernel.org/ (How long has it been now?)

    Wake me up when everyone grows up and realizes how hard our jobs truly are.