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Feds Ready To Take Next Step Of Uninstalling Coreflood Malware

U.S. District Court granted preliminary injunction against botnet operators. The feds are preparing to remotely kill the botnet, which has around 2 million infected machines. The case is a precedent for botnet takedowns, experts say. Experts worry that “frailties to the system could cause unintended consequences,” one expert says. “The debate is going to rage on. But there is still more good to be had by actually forcing the uninstall command,” another expert says of the “uninstall””]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/feds-ready-to-take-next-step-of-uninstalling-coreflood-malware

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