Bamital botnet dismantled, as Microsoft seizes control of malware servers

If any of your computers showed you a screen like this today, you can thank Microsoft.

And you *should* thank them, as chances are that those computers are infected by malware called Bamital.

As Reuters reports, security experts at Microsoft, working with others in the computer security industry, have disrupted a botnet being used by the Bamital malware family.

On Wednesday, data centers in Weehawken, New Jersey, and Manassas, Virginia, were raided by US Marshals, accompanied by Microsoft investigators, and web servers used by cybercriminals were seized…

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