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Stories about: botnet takedown

US Authorities Disable Major Botnet The FBI and US federal prosecutors have disabled a botnet of over 2 million infected computers and took the unprecedented step of setting up sinkhole servers to keep it under control.The FBI has seized five command and control (C&C) servers, as well as 29 domain names used by the Coreflood botnet to communicate with ... 14 April 2011 05:37 GMT Spam Traffic Continues to Decline According to a report from Symantec, the spam output continued to decline for the fourth month in a row, reaching its lowest level since January 2009."The drop in overall spam volume also brought down the overall spam percentage. Spam made up 84.31 percent of all messages in November, compared with 86.61 percent in O... 17 December 2010 12:21 GMT Mega-D Spam Botnet Suffers Severe Blow One of the Internet's most notorious spam botnets, Mega-D, was severely crippled by researchers from a small security company. The blow was delivered late last week and the millions of junk emails spewed out by the botnet every hour instantly stopped.Mega-D, also known as Ozdok, is a botnet primarily used for sp... 10 November 2009 08:12 GMT