Microsoft employees seize Zeus botnet servers with the help of US Marshals

Accompanied by US marshals, Microsoft employees raided office buildings in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Lombard, Illinois on Friday; seizing servers believed to be running botnets used for identity theft. The botnets are infected with the Zeus family of malware, which uses keylogging to go after a user's financial information. Microsoft is reporting 13 million suspected Zeus infections worldwide since 2007, with more than three million just in the US.
If you're wondering what Microsoft is doing carrying out raids on office buildings, we're right there with you. It turns out that the company's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has used a bit of legal ingenuity to go after criminals directly — by filing... »read more

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