Microsoft is attracting fresh criticism for its handling of the Citadel botnet takedown, with some security researchers pointing to signs that the zombie network is already rising from the grave again.
Redmond worked with financial service organisations, other technology firms and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to disrupt more than 1,400 botnets linked to $500m in fraud as part of a takedown action, codenamed Operation b54. In a blog post, Microsoft described its seventh zombie network takedown as its "most aggressive botnet operation to date".
However, security researchers such as Roman Hüssy of Abuse.ch criticised the action for killing off honeypot systems monitoring the activities of cybercrooks as well as seizing internet nodes linked to ongoing fraud.
read more...........http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/13/ms_citadel_takedown_analysis/
Redmond worked with financial service organisations, other technology firms and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to disrupt more than 1,400 botnets linked to $500m in fraud as part of a takedown action, codenamed Operation b54. In a blog post, Microsoft described its seventh zombie network takedown as its "most aggressive botnet operation to date".
However, security researchers such as Roman Hüssy of Abuse.ch criticised the action for killing off honeypot systems monitoring the activities of cybercrooks as well as seizing internet nodes linked to ongoing fraud.
read more...........http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/13/ms_citadel_takedown_analysis/