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Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, along with Bitsight and other agencies, in coordinated to strike against the Necurs botnet, which is believed to have infected over nine million computers across the world. Read more
Microsoft and Bitsight, in coordination with several other organizations and agencies, have taken action to bring down the Necurs botnet, which is believed to have infected over nine million computers across the world. Read more
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit worked with Bitsight and others in the security community to analyze and disrupt the Necurs botnet. Read more
Microsoft, Bitsight, and other security companies and law enforcement agencies, has disrupted the operations of the Necurs botnet through a series coordinated actions.. Read more
Bitsight and Microsoft have taken joint action against the Necurs botnet to disrupt one of the world's largest botnets. Read more
Microsoft and partners in 35 countries, including Bitsight, move to bring down Necurs, today's largest malware botnet. Read more
Microsoft has teamed up with security firm Bitsight Technologies Inc. and others to take down the infamous Necurs botnet. Read more
Microsoft "will take control of the U.S.-based infrastructure used by the criminals behind the world’s most prolific botnet used to distribute malware and infect victim computers." This effort was conducted in coordination with other organizations including Bitsight. Read more
Microsoft, in coordination with organizations including Bitsight, announced on Tuesday, March 10th, that it has moved to disrupt the Necurs, a network of more than 9 million computers that had been surreptitiously infected with malware and then used by hackers to carry out various schemes. Read more
Microsoft, in coordination with Bitsight and others, managed to disrupt the Necurs botnet by taking control of the U.S.-based infrastructure that it has been using to conduct its malicious activities. Read more
Microsoft, along with other organizations including Bitsight, led the effort to take down Necurs, one of the largest malware botnets in the world that had infected more than 9 million computers globally. Read more
Microsoft, Bitsight and other partners used legal and technical steps to achieve a major victory against the Necurs botnet on Tuesday, which was first detected in 2012. Read more.
Bitsight researchers weigh in on how the 11 "Necurs botnets seemed to be controlled by a single group and was responsible for 90 percent of the malware spread by email worldwide between 2016 and 2019." Read more
Microsoft and partners, including Bitsight, have announced a major breakthrough in the fight against hackers today (March 10), with the takedown of the prolific Necurs botnet.
Bitsight vice president Jake Olcott shares insights on how experts fear that coronavirus-themed threats will escalate to ransomware attacks, and that such attacks will disrupt response efforts at hospitals and city, state and local governments.