Microsoft Takes Down Kelihos Botnet, Calls Out Owner in Civil Case
by Eric Limer | 1:12 pm, September 28th
As part of “Operation b79,” Microsoft has taken down the Kelihos botnet and pointed a finger at Dominique Alexander Piatti, its alleged operator, or at least its enabler. While Microsoft is not new to busting up botnets, the finger-pointing is a first. To clarify, by finger-pointing I mean that Microsoft has named Mr. Piatti as the defendant in an impending civil case regarding the botnet’s activities.
What were the botnet’s activities? Well, Piatti owned the cz.cc domain and sold an army of subdomains. While some of those subdomains appeared to have legitmate purposes, many of them where hosting malware, including MacDefender, a piece of scareware aimed towards Apple operating systems. Of course, like any good botnet, it also sent a whole lot of spam and created zombies for later use in DDoS attacks.
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