Bredolab bot server shutdown

The Bredolab botnet was effectively shutdown when servers hosting the malware was shutdown and operators were nabbed by the Dutch national Crime Police as announced.

Bredolab was considered a complicated malware spread via infected mail and had about 30million bots under its control. The dutch authorities announced that they have shutdown 143 servers hosting and spreading this malware.

Interestingly, the authorities will be using the same bot network to redirect the infected PC to a service help page providing them the reason they have arrive to the webpage and how they can remove the malware from their PC.

Our colleagues at ESET are debating if this act of selflessness constitutes a privacy breach. The commentary here. Other security operators are pondering over the same issue. It is indeed becoming a grey matter and the lines differentiating black and white will become tougher.

BTW, Both ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security protect users against this threat.

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