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Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet (technet.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the dorkbot-is-now-a-word-a-you-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday that it aided law enforcement agencies in several regions to disrupt a 4-year-old botnet called Dorkbot. The botnet aims to steal login credentials from services such as Gmail, Facebook, PayPal, Steam, eBay, Twitter and Netflix and has infected one million computers worldwide. The company didn't provide details on how Dorkbot's infrastructure was disrupted.

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  1. Plenty Of Detail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The company didn't provide details on how Dorkbot's infrastructure was disrupted.

    WTF, they "activated a Coordinated Malware Eradication (CME) campaign, performed deep research, and provided telemetry to partners and law enforcement". There's enough meaningless jargon in there to satisfy even the most buzzword calloused manager.

  2. The opportunity presented itself... by Drewdad · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...while Dorkbot's operator was trying to decipher Microsoft's new core-based licensing structure.