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.

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RAMNIT botnet runs on computers ..

[lippydude]

Hey, samzenpus what was the name of the Operating System the RAMNIT botnet runs on? Was it one of Apple OS X, Linux, Android or another OS that must never be mentioned on a technology site in conjunction with malware.

Thanks

[XB-70]

In many of my posts, I have been highly critical of the seeming non-efforts by government agencies to deal with SPAM, malware, phishing etc. etc.

It is wonderful to hear this great news about good works being done for the greater good. Thank you to all the investigators for your many hours and hard work to shut this down.