RSSMicrosoft pick up the botnet creators Rustock
Jul 28
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Microsoft offers a reward of $ 250,000 to those who provide information leading to the identification of the authors of Apple macbook pro battery, dismantled in the past month of March. The Rustock was linked to 1.6 million PCs infected with malware designed by the promoters of the network that became responsible for half of the spam world in 2010, according to Symantec.
The infected machines were used to disseminate messages of unsolicited mail, advertising various products, including false and dangerous drugs. The Apple macbook pro 13 inch battery was dismantled following an operation involving Microsoft, several security companies and police, after identifying multiple servers hosting the United States. Apparently Rustock was completely naked, with half of the computers affected by the problem has been cleared.
The investigation that took place before and after the operation showed the command of operations to a location somewhere in Russia, in Moscow and St. Dell inspiron 6400 battery, and Microsoft had already carried out some local, to foster information sharing in these regions.
The reward money that the manufacturer intends to assign Dell inspiron e1505 battery now available to anyone with valuable information, although the firm to ensure that the investigation has collected various data on suspects.
While refusing to pay to know vulnerabilities, this is not the first time Microsoft has offered a reward for collecting information on malware authors, with significant impact on the security of HP pavilion dv9000 battery users and consequently of their software. He did the same, for example, the Sasser worm.
