Rustock, purveyor of more email spam than any other network in the world, was felled last week by Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents.
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Dutch police take down Bredolab botnet
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the suspected mastermind and seized the servers behind the malware-spamming botnet, which was built in layers 'like an onion' for protection
A lawsuit by Microsoft that was unsealed at the company's request on Thursday triggered several co-ordinated raids on Wednesday that took down Rustock, a botnet that infected millions of computers with malicious code in order to turn them into a massive spam-sending network.
"This botnet is estimated to have approximately a million infected computers operating under its control and has been known to be capable of sending billions of spam mails every day," Richard Boscovich, senior attorney in the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Microsoft and feds bring down spam giant Rustock on CNET News.
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