Security researchers from four different organizations brought down a botnet by turning a supposed strength of the criminals’ spamming network into a fatal weakness. Experts from CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks, the Honeynet Project and Kaspersky Lab crippled the second-coming of the Kelihos botnet on March 21 by “sinkholing” about 118,000 bot-infected computers using the hackers’ own peer-to-peer network.
- Read the article: Computerworld
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