NASK shuts down dangerous Virut botnet domains

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NASK shuts down dangerous Virut botnet domains
Botnet	Virut
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2013 / 2013-01-18
Editor/Conference	CERT Polska
Link	https://www.cert.pl/news/6666/langswitch lang/en (Archive copy)
Author
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ NASK has taken over multiple domains used for cybercrime activities, making their further usage for illegal purposes impossible. The domain names were used to spread and control dangerous malware known as “Virut” . NASK’s actions are aimed at protecting Internet users from threats that involved the botnet built with Virut-infected machines, such as DDoS attacks, spam and data theft. The scale of the phenomenon was massive: in 2012 for Poland alone, over 890 thousand unique IP addresses were reported to be infected by Virut.

Bibtex

 @misc{2013BFR1284,
   editor = {CERT Polska},
   author = {},
   title = {NASK shuts down dangerous Virut botnet domains},
   date = {18},
   month = Jan,
   year = {2013},
   howpublished = {\url{https://www.cert.pl/news/6666/langswitch_lang/en}},
 }