Microsoft calls it “one of the world’s most prolific botnets.”
The heydays of the Necurs botnet seem to be over for good because Microsoft and its associates in over 35 countries have joined hands against the notorious network.
The tech giant Microsoft designed a fruitful strategy to take down the botnet that so far has affected over 9 million devices around the world. The company and its partners revealed that they have been monitoring the network for the past eight years and employed technological and legal steps to disrupt it.
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According to the blog post from Microsoft’s CVP Customer Security and Trust Tom Burt, this disruption will be helpful in ensuring that the network is rendered useless for the cybercriminals operating it as the “key elements of its infrastructure” have been destroyed.
It is worth noting that the Necurs is regarded as the largest network of botnets currently existing in the spam email threat environment and has the capability of infecting a large number of computers worldwide. Some of the malware spread through this botnet included Dridex, GameOver Zeus, Trickbot and Locky.
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