Cooperative Efforts To Shut Down Virut Botnet

During the past few weeks, Spamhaus has worked hard to shut down a botnet called “Virut”. Virut take down: Virut is a worm that spreads through removable drives such as USB sticks and network shares, but it also has file infection capabilities it uses to spread itself. Virut was first…

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The Spamhaus Project authored by The Spamhaus Team. Read the original post at: https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/malware/cooperative-efforts-to-shut-down-virut-botnet