The Waledac takedown is the culmination of a months-long investigation and legal strategizing on the part of Microsoft in an effort known as "Operation b49." The software giant received a temporary ...

‘Our disruption is intended to disable ZLoader’s infrastructure and make it more difficult for this organized criminal gang to continue their activities,’ Microsoft says in a blog post. Microsoft took ...

Microsoft has seen a 254% increase in activity over the past few months from XorDDoS, a roughly eight-year-old network of infected Linux machines that is used for distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...

Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control ...

Continuing its legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has announced new actions against a group of people it contends are ...

Microsoft has warned that a new variant of the Sysrv botnet is targeting a critical flaw in the Spring Framework to install cryptocurrency mining malware on Linux and Windows systems. Microsoft ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft reported the successful takedown of a botnet capable of sending 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day. But the botnet will remain in operation indefinitely, with traffic being ...