Microsoft’s lawyers takes down Waledac botnet

By David Olsen · 1 March 2010 · Locked

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Microsoft has successfully taken legal action to shut down the control structure of the network behind the Waledac botnet that is responsible for 1.5 billion spam emails daily. In the US District Court of Eastern Virginia, a federal judge granted Microsoft’s request against 273 domain names believed to be hubs for control of the Waledac […]

Tags: Botnet, Email, IT security, Microsoft, Spam