USA Today: Microsoft orchestrated the bust-up of another botnet operation that stole $500 million.
USA Today: Microsoft orchestrated the bust-up of another botnet operation that stole $500 million.
These bad guys – operators of the sprawling Citadel botnet — make the fictional band of sophisticated thieves from the movie Ocean’s 11 look like amateurs. Authorities estimate they’ve scored more than $500 million from banks in the United States and abroad by accessing online accounts and rerouting funds.
A botnet is a collection of hundreds to thousands of infected PCs that respond to commands routed through a command-and-control server, which is also an infected PC.
