3 Million Strong RAMNIT Botnet Taken Down

An anonymous reader writes The National Crime Agency's National Cyber Crime Unit worked with law enforcement colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany, co-ordinated through Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, to shut down command and control servers used by the RAMNIT botnet. Investigators believe that RAMNIT may have infected over three million computers worldwide, with around 33,000 of those being in the UK. It has so far largely been used to attempt to take money from bank accounts.

Comments

Re:RAMNIT botnet runs on computers ..

[Caesar Tjalbo]

He copy pasted the first paragraph from tfa in tfs. Windows is immediately mentioned in the 2nd paragraph but do you really need it in tfs?

Detection?

[basecastula]

Here you go. Tell your clients. windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/detect-remove-ramnit-virus