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Microsoft, FBI Flatten Monster Botnet

2013-06-07 13:45:00| TechNewsWorld

A coalition comprising Microsoft, the FBI, and financial-industry and tech firms has taken out more than 1,400 botnets that used the Citadel Trojan to steal victims' online banking information and information about their identities. Microsoft filed a civil suit last week against 82 alleged botnet operators and cut communications between the botnets and millions of infected PCs they controlled.

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Microsoft, FBI disrupt Citadel botnet network

2013-06-06 13:18:18| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have taken aim at a botnet network based on malware called Citadel that is held responsible for stealing people's online banking information and personal identities. The company, however, warned that because of Citadel's size and complexity, it does not expect to fully take out "all of the botnets in the world using the Citadel malware."

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FBI and Microsoft hit theft botnet

2013-06-06 12:50:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A huge botnet that helped steal $500m has been broken up thanks to co-ordinated action by the FBI and Microsoft.

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Microsoft, feds disrupt massive Citadel botnet

2013-06-06 03:06:18| CNET News.com

The software giant teams with the FBI and financial services industry groups to slow down a cybercrime ring that is allegedly responsible for roughly $500 million in losses. [Read more]    

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Hackers exploit Ruby on Rails vulnerability to compromise servers, create botnet

2013-05-29 14:25:25| InfoWorld: Top News

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails Web application development framework in order to compromise Web servers and create a botnet. The Ruby on Rails development team released a security patch for the vulnerability, which is known as CVE-2013-0156, back in January. However, some server administrators haven't yet updated their Rails installations.

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