{"id":114573,"date":"2020-10-16T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T04:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/microsoft-attempts-takedown-of-global-criminal-botnet"},"modified":"2020-10-16T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T04:23:30","slug":"microsoft-attempts-takedown-of-global-criminal-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/microsoft-attempts-takedown-of-global-criminal-botnet","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft attempts takedown of global criminal botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-attempts-takedown-of-global-criminal-botnet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2020\/10\/12\/trickbot-ransomware-cyberthreat-us-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\"> disrupt a major cybercrime digital network<\/a> that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware, which experts consider a major threat to the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The operation to knock offline command-and-control servers for a global botnet that uses an infrastructure known as Trickbot to infect computers with malware was initiated with an order that Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/noticeofpleadings.com\/trickbot\/files\/Court Orders\/Order Granting Motion to Seal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">obtained in Virginia federal court on Oct. 6.<\/a> Microsoft argued that the crime network is abusing its trademark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very hard to tell how effective it will be but we are confident it will have a very long-lasting effect,\u201d said Jean-Ian Boutin, head of threat research at ESET, one of several cybersecurity firms that partnered with Microsoft to map the command-and-control servers. \u201cWe\u2019re sure that they are going to notice and it will be hard for them to get back to the state that the botnet was in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware, which experts consider a major threat to the U.S. presidential election. The operation to knock offline command-and-control servers for a global botnet that uses an infrastructure known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}