| Microsoft Declares Man behind Kelihos Botnet |
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| Written by Administrator |
| Friday, 27 January 2012 12:00 |
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According to Microsoft, it has been able to trace the person responsible for the Kelihos network of bots, which contaminated PCs with viruses for gaining hold over the systems and then maliciously utilized them for dispatching junk e-mails to other computers through Outlook and Hotmail e-mail accounts. The person identified is Andrey N. Sabelnikov, who lives in St. Petersburg and is a Russian citizen. Microsoft has blamed him for authoring the code to develop alternatively, take part in developing Kelihos, a destructive malicious program. Microsoft further accuses Sabelnikov of employing the program so he may grow, maintain, operate and control the Kelihos network of bots via contaminating unwitting users' PCs, among other activities. Reportedly, there were 41,000 bot-infected PCs from across the world in the Kelihos botnet that could spam 3.8bn messages daily till September last (2011) when Microsoft shut it down. ... Read the rest of: Microsoft Declares Man behind Kelihos Botnet |