Seculert researchers say that the Kelihos botnet is alive and well, spreading with the aid of a Facebook worm that infects the computers of customers mostly from the US and Poland.
On March 28, 2012, Kaspersky experts revealed that with the aid of CrowdStrike Intelligence Team, the Honeynet Project and Dell SecureWo... |
30 March 2012
05:07 GMT |
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Recently, Kaspersky experts revealed that a new version of the Kelihos botnet was making the rounds, turning the computers of unprotected users into zombies. Now, the company partnered up with CrowdStrike Intelligence Team, the Honeynet Project and Dell SecureWorks, and took another crack at Kelihos.
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28 March 2012
10:29 GMT |
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After Kaspersky revealed that the Kelihos botnet they terminated back in September in a partnership with Microsoft and Kyrus Tech Inc. may have returned, the Redmond company comes forward with some clarifications, arguing that this is actually a new version of the Kelihos malware that’s being used to create a n... |
4 February 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Right after Microsoft and Kaspersky disrupted the activity of the Kelihos/Hlux botnet, a week ago the Redmond company having managed to identify one of its masterminds, researchers found that the botnet returned with some interesting new techniques.
Kaspersky Lab Experts reveal that the method they utilized to bring... |
31 January 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been actively investigating the Kelihos botnet case since September when it took it down in collaboration with Kyrus Inc. and Kaspersky Labs. Microsoft has been pursuing new leads in the case in an attempt to hold all those behind the botnet responsible for their... |
24 January 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Microsoft will be dismissing the lawsuit against Dominique Alexander Piatti and dotFREE Group SRO, the named defendants in the case of the Kelihos botnet takedown, after a settlement was reached.
Richard Domingues Boscovich, Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, stressed that the software giant will conti... |
27 October 2011
04:35 GMT |
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An updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is now available for download from the Redmond company for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows. Softpedia readers have already been able to read about the Redmond company’s involvement in taking down the Kelihos botne... |
29 September 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is preparing to release an update version of the free Malicious Software Removal Tool designed to help identify and clean zombie computers that are part of the Kelihos / Waledac 2.0 botnet.
Richard Domingues Boscovich, Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit announced on September 27, 2011 that ... |
28 September 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Microsoft took down the Waledac botnet in early 2010, but by the end of that same year, Waledac 2.0, which the company dubbed Kelihos, had started to show signs of life again, and as of January 2011 was spamming again in full force.
It’s critical to note that Waledac 2.0 didn’t manage to grow to the ... |
28 September 2011
07:14 GMT |
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