Botnet fights back after Microsoft’s US election security takedown


Microsoft and its partners started their attack on Oct 9 after winning a court order to disrupt Trickbot, known for infecting and stealing troves of data before exposing victims to ransomware attacks. — Reuters

A week after Microsoft Corp led a global attack against one of the world’s most prolific malware groups, the company says it’s winning an ongoing battle to temporarily destabilise the malicious botnet ahead of the US presidential election.

When Microsoft and its coalition of partners attacked the infrastructure supporting the popular Trickbot malware, they identified 69 servers and routers hosting the botnet around the world. As of Oct 18, they’d compromised 62 of them, according to a Microsoft statement. A botnet is a network of computers infected with malware.

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