Microsoft has conducted another campaign against a botnet

A year ago, researchers from Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) bought 20 PCs from retailers in China, and found that four of them were infected with malware. One of them included the bot component of the Nitol botnet. The DCU's investigations identified command and control servers behind the botnet, and earlier this month, the company, armed with a court order, seized control of Chinese DNS service 3320.org in order to disrupt the botnet's operations.