If you know the Rustock botnet creator Microsoft you will be rewarded. Photo: Image source/Rex features
Microsoft has released a price on the heads of criminals behind Rustock spam botnet: $250,000. It may not quite a lottery prize of eradicating riches, but for many of those who could be on the edge of legality, which can, know who are the people behind the Russian-based network, there is a sufficiently tempting piece of fruit.
In a blog post, Richard Boscovich, senior Attorney at the company of digital crimes unit says that "we believe that the Rustock should be considered for their actions to the responsibility of Bot herders."
Rustock, Boscovich stressed, was a notorious spam generator able to produce up to 30 spam e-Mails per day. Despite the series in March, which reduced the number of infected machines of 1.6 m to about 703,000, is still a long way to go.
The worst infected countries prior to the game series were India (322,000), Russia (94,000), Italy (54,000), the United States (86,000) and Turkey (89,000).
They are then India (99,000), the United States (56,000), Turkey (50,000), Italy (32,000) and Russia (27,000).
Boscovich adds that "Microsoft has already been of strong prove in our ongoing research has collection and this reward aims these efforts one step further." We will continue in this case follow, where it takes us and continues to work with our partners around the world to help, again over their Rustock infected computer. (For free information and resources to help clean your computer, please visit support.microsoft.com/botnets.)
Here are the cards (generated by OpenHeatMap of the number of infections.) Apart from the fact that the United States is moved from the second largest number of infections to the fourth-largest, there is not much change between the two. Perhaps surprisingly, India, remains the place with the most infections. The surprising missing? China. We want to know why it show up not there.
Ago...
Rustock infections by country, prior to take-down
..and after
Rustock infections, from country to country, according to take-down
Microsoft has released a price on the heads of criminals behind Rustock spam botnet: $250,000. It may not quite a lottery prize of eradicating riches, but for many of those who could be on the edge of legality, which can, know who are the people behind the Russian-based network, there is a sufficiently tempting piece of fruit.
In a blog post, Richard Boscovich, senior Attorney at the company of digital crimes unit says that "we believe that the Rustock should be considered for their actions to the responsibility of Bot herders."
Rustock, Boscovich stressed, was a notorious spam generator able to produce up to 30 spam e-Mails per day. Despite the series in March, which reduced the number of infected machines of 1.6 m to about 703,000, is still a long way to go.
The worst infected countries prior to the game series were India (322,000), Russia (94,000), Italy (54,000), the United States (86,000) and Turkey (89,000).
They are then India (99,000), the United States (56,000), Turkey (50,000), Italy (32,000) and Russia (27,000).
Boscovich adds that "Microsoft has already been of strong prove in our ongoing research has collection and this reward aims these efforts one step further." We will continue in this case follow, where it takes us and continues to work with our partners around the world to help, again over their Rustock infected computer. (For free information and resources to help clean your computer, please visit support.microsoft.com/botnets.)
Here are the cards (generated by OpenHeatMap of the number of infections.) Apart from the fact that the United States is moved from the second largest number of infections to the fourth-largest, there is not much change between the two. Perhaps surprisingly, India, remains the place with the most infections. The surprising missing? China. We want to know why it show up not there.
Ago...
Rustock infections by country, prior to take-down
..and after
Rustock infections, from country to country, according to take-down
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