Palo Alto Networks have announced about the revamp of the Waledac spam botnet, set with all new capability of stealing passwords, which is turning to be more treacherous then the older one that Microsoft took down last year, as per news published in eWEEK.COM on February 15, 2012.
Microsoft took control of the Waledac earlier, two years back, when the Company cut off the link between the command-and-control servers of these botnets and the numerous other zombie computers controlled by it. Microsoft empowered the domains that were utilized for running the botnet with due permission from the court.
According to Wade Williamson, a Senior Security Analyst at Palo Alto Networks, computers compromised with the new variant of Waledac are still sending out spam, but with enhanced capabilities of stealing passwords and authentication information, as per news published in eWEEK.COM on February 15, 2012
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