Microsoft and other global infosec companies have mounted a joint operation to sabotage command-and-control (C2) infrastructure used by the Trickbot malware.
Coming on the heels of a US government operation to disrupt the botnet late last week, as reported by infosec blogger Brian Krebs, the multinational effort to take down C2 infrastructure is being billed as part of an attempt to protect the American presidential elections taking place on 3 November.
"We disrupted Trickbot through a court order we obtained as well as technical action we executed in partnership with telecommunications providers around the world," blogged MS veep Tom Burt. "We have now cut off key infrastructure so those operating Trickbot will no longer be able to initiate new infections or activate ransomware already dropped into computer systems."
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