Microsoft: "We took out Storm botnet"

In malware news today, Computerworld is reporting that Microsoft took credit for crushing the Storm botnet, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the towel. Its malware scanner cleaned more than 500k PCs infected with the bot in ‘07

You can read this to mean the hackers squeezed out as much money as possible from Storm and are working on v2.

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