Despite Takedown, the Dridex Botnet Is Running Again (sans.edu)

itwbennett writes: Brad Duncan, a security researcher with Rackspace, on Friday wrote on the Internet Storm Center blog that 'the Dridex botnet administrator was arrested on 2015-08-28, and Palo Alto Networks reported Dridex was back by 2015-10-01. That represents an outage of approximately one month.' The lesson here, writes Jeremy Kirk in an article on CSOonline is that 'while law enforcement can claim temporary victories in fighting cybercriminal networks, it's sometimes difficult to completely shut down their operations.'

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Re:You cannot succeed

[Anonymous Coward]

So if your grandma gets hacked we should sue her and throw her in jail?

How about we hold Microsoft accountable for the shitty fucking security in their operating system?

That's the real problem here.