CRIME NEWS (Cyber Crime)

Microsoft, Symantec disrupt cyber ring, halt searches Hindustan Times - ‎ Software makers Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users. The move made it temporarily impossible for ... Microsoft Disrupted Cybercrime Botnet That Hijacked PCs Bloomberg - Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, said it disrupted a cybercrime operation known as the Bamitel botnet that took control of hundreds of thousands of personal computers by infecting them with malicious software. Microsoft worked with ... Microsoft, Symantec take down Bamital click-fraud botnet Computerworld - IDG News Service - Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the US$12.7 billion online advertising industry by generating ... Microsoft, Symantec shutter another botnet CNET - ‎ Symantec and Microsoft join forces to stop a botnet, and for the first time they provide clean-up tools directly to people with infected computers. Seth Rosenblatt. by Seth Rosenblatt. February 6, 2013 3:20 PM PST Follow @b1g1nj4p4n. Microsoft's interstitial ... Microsoft Takedown Busts Up Global Botnet Cybercrime Ring Huffington Post - ‎ Thousands of computer users around the world received startling news Wednesday when they tried to search online: their PCs were infected and used by hackers to commit cybercrime. The news came after Microsoft disrupted a network of infected computers ... Microsoft and Symantic take down Bamital botnet myce.com - ‎ Working under an order issued by the US District Court of Alexandria, Virgina, and accompanied by federal marshals, technicians from Microsoft and Symantic disabled servers that controlled a botnet called Bamital. This botnet affected as many as eight ... Microsoft, Symantec Disable Massive Malware Operation Law360 (subscription) -  Law360, Chicago (February 06, 2013, 7:47 PM ET) -- Microsoft Corp. and Symantec Corp. have obstructed a malicious software operation designed to steal personal information from unsuspecting online users and fraudulently charge businesses for ... Massive search fraud botnet seized by Microsoft and Symantec Ars Technica - Users with computers infected by the Bamital botnet malware will see this page every time they click a search result. A botnet that redirected clicks from millions of PCs has been, at least for the moment, shut down by Microsoft and Symantec. Based on the ... Bamital Botnet taken down thanks to Microsoft and Symantec's joint efforts WinBeta - ‎ In a joint effort, Microsoft and Symantec have taken down a dangerous botnet called "Bamital" which hijacked search results and took victims to potentially malicious sites that would install malware. "Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, in collaboration with Symantec, ... Microsoft And Symantec Join Forces To Bust Major Cyber Crime Ring Gizmodo Australia - ‎ It sounds like the plot of movie: two major software corporations join together to shut down an evil global cyber crime operation and engage in wacky hijinks along the way. While the latter can be neither confirmed nor denied, according to an exclusive report ... Vigilantes at Microsoft and Symantec 'hijack' hundreds of thousands of PCs for ... VentureBeat -  Microsoft and Symantec researchers busted into two data centers in New Jersey and Virginia today to shut down servers associated with a botnet called Bamital. The companies had an order from the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., according to Reuters, ... Microsoft, Symantec team up to smash click-fraud botnet SC Magazine - Microsoft, in partnership with security firm Symantec, announced Wednesday that it has disrupted a botnet known for rerouting victim machines to websites, online advertisements and links of the attackers' choosing. Over the last two years, a trojan known as ... Microsoft, Symantec Join Forces to Take Down Bamital Click-Fraud Botnet Threatpost (blog) - Microsoft and Symantec have shut down a massive click fraud botnet known as Bamital, numerous variants of which have been in circulation since 2009 amassing several million dollars in fraudulent profit for the attackers as well as spreading more malware ... Protecting the people: Microsoft helps crush Bamital malware that affected ... GeekWire -  Chalk one up for Microsoft. Today, the Redmond software giant teamed up with Symantec to take down a nasty malware affecting thousands upon thousands of PCs. The cyber crime was a Bamital botnet that hijacked people's search experiences and ... Symantec and Microsoft takedown Click Fraud Botnet ITBusiness.ca - ‎ Symantec and Microsoft teamed up to takedown of the command and control servers used by a threat called Trojan. Bamital. According to the Symantec, this malware was used to carry out extensive click fraud activities that netted the criminals behind it a ... Microsoft, Symantec Disable Botnet Infecting Hundreds of Thousands of ... Mashable -  Microsoft and Symantec joined forces to shut down a botnet controlling hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, according to a report. Between 300,000 and 600,000 computers were freed from botnet control when technicians and U.S. federal ... How To Tell If Your Computer Was Infected By The Bamital Botnet Fast Company -  Microsoft and Symantec say they worked together to bring down a worldwide cyber crime operation. About This Series. Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and ... Sharks patrol these waters SmartCompany.com.au - ‎ Last weekend's story that The New York Times was attacked by Chinese hackers following a story exposing the financial details of the nation's Premier doesn't come as much of a surprise to anybody following either China or computer security issues. Another ... SOURCE