Investigative Authorities Shut down Coreflood Botnet

Recently, counter crime and law enforcement agencies in United States (U.S) seized five command and control (C&C) servers and 29 web domains. The seized servers and domains were used by the creators of an international botnet, which infected millions of computers worldwide. The computers were infected with a malicious software program called Coreflood by exploiting security flaws in computers running Windows operating system. According to the civil complaint filed by the U.S Attorney

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