On the evening of Tuesday this week, the operation of the popular service provider in Kazakhstan, Troyak, was impeded. Thus, six smaller ISPs, which were known to have been sustaining botnets based on the Zeus malware infection, lost their support.

 

Collaboration against Troyak brought victory

 

Six unnamed security firms formed an alliance in order to persuade the host companies of Troyak to give up their support on the said service provider’s system. Hence, the command and control servers for 68 of the 249 Zeus botnets were destroyed in the process. Included in the 69 botnets was the network that was utilized in robbing 415, 000 US dollars from Bullitt Country at Kentucky.

 

Process of busting Zeus malware botnets

 

The malwares offered great amount of trouble among the many security firms since these are capable of incorporating malicious codes and commands into the legitimate files without any difficulty. Thus, this event may serve as a warning for all the figures, which are known to be protectors of the Zeus.

 

According to Henry Stern and Mary Landesman, security researchers from Cisco ScanSafe, this seizing operation does not have a long-standing effect on the remaining large number of malware botnets lurking online. However this may operate as a beneficial strategy in order to convince the other legitimate host companies to halt their support for the numerous devious service providers and botnet operators. Through this, there will be a greater chance of winning against the criminals in the internet community.

 

Protecting legitimacy is a must

 

The security firms considers the idea that in the process of conquering service providers that are proven to have connections with the prevalent criminal activity, the bigger companies will work hand-in-hand with them. Truly, the priority of these highly-reputable companies is to protect its name and status.

 

Legal companies protect their funds

 

Based on the statement of Henry Stern, Cisco Scansafe security researcher, a bot is not costly but routers and servers can be pretty much pricey for the companies. And in the present course of action, there can be a greater negative impact on the business for the legit companies.

 

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