A Win For The Good Guys: The Coreflood Takedown
It’s botnet takedown season again and this time around it was CoreFlood that bit the dust. As is most often the case nowadays, this botnet was built exclusively to steal personal and financial information from the victims. The takedown was facilitated by the US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is a great victory for law enforcement and all the good guys fighting against cybercrime.
One big botnet less means that at the very least cybercriminals will think twice about setting up a server in the US from now on. That, of course, is not enough. On the bright side, if law enforcement collaboration keeps at this level, we can expect this kind of action to happen again in other places and that would be the greatest victory of all.
The biggest challenge law enforcement has today is the different legal systems there are when dealing with crimes that cross many borders. If the servers are physically located in a few countries with registrars located in other different countries, law enforcement has to jump through many hoops in order to seize those domains and servers. I believe we will get there but there’s a lot of work to do. The collaboration between different law enforcement units in all the countries is key and we’re headed the right way. In the mean time, it’s time to celebrate.
Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog – by Trend Micro
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