Microsoft it is together with
Partners from 35 countries managed the dangerous botnet Necurs
largely destroy. With coordinated legal and
technical measures were taken to ensure that the criminals
no longer on central parts of the most active infrastructure
Botnets the world can use, the company said in
Redmond with.
Botnets consist of many hacked, networked with the Internet
Devices. These are mostly personal computers, however
also so-called smart devices such as networked household electronics. The
Necurs botnet is said to have consisted of over nine million computers.
It is considered one of the largest networks for the dispatch of
Spam e-mails about wrong pharmaceutical products or Russian ones
Dating offers. A single computer infected with Necurs
a total of 3.8 million spam emails to over 40.6 million
potential victims sent.
Criminals used Necurs to spread Trojans like
GameOver Zeus or so-called “Pump and Dump” share cams. Here
certain stocks are cheered up in the spam messages, so
the share price rises briefly. The fraudsters who advance
you can buy cheaply with the affected shares
sell at a profit. The botnet could also be used for criminal purposes
be hired.
The blow to the network went eight, according to Microsoft
Years ahead of botnet tracking and planning. On the one hand
it was possible to crack the algorithm with the Necurs running
could generate new Internet addresses (domains). So that could
Around six million domains are predicted that the botnet will be in
the following 25 months. These domains could then
blocked so that they no longer become part of the botnet
could.
At the same time, Microsoft succeeded, from a district court in New
York received a court order to order Necurs calculator
who were located in the United States. “This has Microsoft
allows you to take control of the infrastructure that
Necurs in the US to spread malware and infect the
Computer that uses victims, “wrote Microsoft manager Tom Burt in
a blog entry.
PC users who fear that a Windows computer from the
Malware is infected, the security software “Safety
Use scanner “(https://t1p.de/security-scanner), recommended the
Software group./chd/DP/zb
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