US feds shut down Coreflood botnet

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FBI and DoJ take down infected PCs with help from Microsoft

Law enforcement agencies in the US have claimed a major victory against organised cyber crime by crippling a botnet comprising about two million infected PCs that is thought to be behind the theft ...

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