Microsoft takedown Waledac botnet “Operation b49”
Botnet are the backbone for all cyber crime. May it be DOS attack, Spamming. Its just a group of Computer controlled by criminals. Waledac is one of 10 biggest Botnet. Waledac has already spread over hundred and thousand of computer all over the world. It is belived that it has capacity to send over 1.5 billion of spam mail in a day. Microsoft in 18 days has blocked 651 million spam emails attributable to Waledac.
An action was taken to shutdown Waledac. The operation was named “Operation b49”. Microsoft Cut off the traffic between the to waledac at .com level.
bot-Herders Controls all the Botnets .
Bot-herders losses control over the Botnets after cutting off traffic to Control server.