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Massive search fraud botnet seized by Microsoft and Symantec

Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 04:53 PM EST

It's a trojan. See this Symantec write-up, so I guess it's most likely arriving in email attachments.

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Search fraud botnet teased by Microsoft and Symantec

Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 08:48 PM EST

MS says Bamital "usually" uses the Phoenix Exploit Kit. This old post from websense indicates Phoenix is a typical drive-by that grabs at anything loose on your machine. The declaration PDF, of Craig Schmidt in support of MS' complaint PDF, claims to show the exploit working with Firefox+Bing. When MS & Symantec claimed to have taken down the (more like a) Zeus botnet, the source code had been on git-hub so long that variants are popping up again now. I expect this one to bounce too.

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Correction - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 08:58 PM EST

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