Europol, Microsoft and Symantec take down Ramnit botnet

Danny Palmer
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Cyber criminals had been using 3.2 million infected PCs to steal personal data

The Ramnit botnet, which had infected 3.2 million computers around the world, has been taken down in a coordinated joint international operation by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre and a number...

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