Microsoft, FBI Takedown Citadel Botnet

hypnosec writes "Microsoft in collaboration with the FBI have successfully taken down the Citadel botnet which was known to control millions of PCs across the globe and was allegedly responsible for bank fraud in excess of $500 million. Citadel was known to have over 1,400 instances across the globe with most located in the US, Europe, India, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. It would install key-logging tools on target systems, which were then used to steal online banking credentials."

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Re:$500 Million

[Fluffeh]

I don't think that "instance" means infected machine here. I would say likely it would be some sort of control node of the botnet. If you have many control nodes, it is much harder to take control of the botnet as a whole.