The Department of Justice’s announcement on June 2 about the takedown of the notorious CryptoLocker Ransomware and Gameover Zeus botnet highlights the security community at its best – sharing intelligence and resources for the greater public good. Operations of this magnitude are unimaginably complex.
David Dagon, a co-founder of Damballa and Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, operated the sinkhole that helped to make the CryptoLocker takedown possible. He was assisted by the Damballa research team, who reverse-engineered the Cryptolocker DGA malware and provided intelligence about the compromised domains.
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David Dagon, a co-founder of Damballa and Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, operated the sinkhole that helped to make the CryptoLocker takedown possible. He was assisted by the Damballa research team, who reverse-engineered the Cryptolocker DGA malware and provided intelligence about the compromised domains.
more here..........https://blog.damballa.com/archives/2446