Microsoft's takedown of the Waledac botnet has not been effective, according to some security researchers. The throttling of Waledac, which Microsoft claimed to have achieved by means of legal action ...

A prominent security researcher today said he doubts Microsoft’s take-down of the Waledac botnet would have any impact on spam levels, as the company claimed. “Waledac just is not a hugely prolific ...

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 ...

The Aisuru botnet, a network of compromised and malicious Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has mounted a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS) attack for the third time in as many ...

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(TNS) — A week after Microsoft Corp. led a global attack against one of the world's most prolific malware groups, the company says it's winning an ongoing battle to temporarily destabilize the ...

‘Our disruption is intended to disable ZLoader’s infrastructure and make it more difficult for this organized criminal gang to continue their activities,’ Microsoft says in a blog post. Microsoft took ...

Microsoft on Monday said it had used a federal court order to break up a Russian botnet that could’ve disrupted the upcoming U.S. election by installing ransomware on government computer systems. The ...