Microsoft leads offensive against TrickBot infrastucture ahead of US election day
The US government and cyber security experts see ransomware attacks as one of the biggest threats to the upcoming elections
Microsoft announced on Monday that it has led a major offensive operation to take down the backend infrastructure of the notorious TrickBot malware botnet that uses over 1 million infected systems to spread...
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