The Waledac takedown is the culmination of a months-long investigation and legal strategizing on the part of Microsoft in an effort known as "Operation b49." The software giant received a temporary ...

Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control ...

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Microsoft has seen a dramatic drop in the number of computers infected with Waledac, a piece of malicious software affiliated with a botnet that was once responsible for a massive amount of spam. In ...

Microsoft has announced that it is about to put an end to Necurs, one of the most dangerous botnets in recent years. Microsoft's cyber-security crusade continues. After eight years of work, Cyber ...

A series of raids last week submarined Rustock, Microsoft said, noting that it had filed a lawsuit that sparked the raids. Rustock would take control of a computer and use it to send spam. It is ...

Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the ...