Source: SC Magazine News this week that the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI teamed up to dismantle the unrelenting Coreflood botnet resulted in universal cheers from the security community. But the rare tactic authorities used to pull the plug on Coreflood — sending commands to infected computers telling them to cease communication with command-and-control [...]
Coreflood-style takedowns may lead to trouble
Published: April 15, 2011