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Microsoft Removes Million PCs From Citadel Botnet Clutches

Microsoft has freed more than 1.2 million PCs from the control of the Citadel botnet and its criminal masters

Clues and details about the Cutwail botnet and its creator have been discovered in chat logs by Russian authorities

Microsoft continues to wage war with botnets after gaining a court order to take down Kelihos

A spam outbreak is hitting levels not seen since Rustock was disabled in March, according to Commtouch

Microsoft has offered $250,000 for information leading to the conviction of the Rustock botnet's operators

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Microsoft released the latest statistics for the crippled Rustock spam server it helped to take down in March

Microsoft forensic experts have uncovered 400,000 email addresses from seized Rustock servers

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The FBI has shut down the massive Coreflood botnet and is hunting 13 criminals who stole millions of dollars

Another botnet has ceased operations after it emerged that the Harnig (Piptea) botnet has gone offline

The global volume of spam has dropped dramatically after Rustock's servers were seized by US Marshalls

Dell and Damballa discussed the growth of toolkits and pay-per-install botnet growth at the RSA Conference

Spam levels fell over Christmas but Symantec reckons this may be the lull before a storm coming in 2011