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Symantec Takes Down Portion of Massive ZeroAccess Botnet

2013-10-02 07:34:15| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Symantec said this week that it has managed to defeat a large portion of a powerful botnet known as ZeroAccess.

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Symantec Takes Down Portion of Massive ZeroAccess Botnet

2013-10-02 04:35:42| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

Symantec said this week that it has managed to defeat a large portion of a powerful botnet known as ZeroAccess.

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Symantec Paws at ZeroAccess Botnet

2013-10-01 23:33:56| TechNewsWorld

Symantec has removed more than 500,000 infected PCs from the botnet created by the ZeroAccess Trojan, which uses a peer-to-peer mechanism -- the latest technique botnet authors have adopted to avoid having their networks taken down by security experts. Symantec used a DNS sinkhole to fight the ZeroAccess botnet. The attack "made a sizeable dent," said Symantec security researcher Vikram Thakur.

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Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess

2013-10-01 13:23:17| InfoWorld: Top News

The cyber criminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by security researchers from Symantec.According to Symantec, the ZeroAccess botnet consists of more than 1.9 million infected computers and is used primarily to perform click fraud and Bitcoin mining in order to generate revenues estimated at tens of millions of dollars per year.

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