Microsoft Takes Control of Necurs U.S.-Based Infrastructure

guest · Mar 10, 2020

Microsoft Takes Control of Necurs U.S.-Based Infrastructure
March 10, 2020
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...es-control-of-necurs-us-based-infrastructure/

Microsoft announced today that it took over the U.S.-based infrastructure used by the Necurs spam botnet for distributing malware payloads and infecting millions of computers.

A single Necurs-infected device was observed while sending roughly 3.8 million spam messages to more than 40.6 million targets during 58 days according to Microsoft's investigation.

"On Thursday, March 5, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an order enabling Microsoft to take control of U.S.-based infrastructure Necurs uses to distribute malware and infect victim computers," Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt said.
"With this legal action and through a collaborative effort involving public-private partnerships around the globe, Microsoft is leading activities that will prevent the criminals behind Necurs from registering new domains to execute attacks in the future."
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The Necurs botnet
Necurs is today's largest spam botnet, initially spotted around 2012 and linked by some sources to the TA505 cybercrime group, the operators behind the Dridex banking trojan.

The Necurs malware is also known to be modular, with modules dedicated to delivering huge numbers of spam emails as Microsoft also observed, to redirecting traffic via HTTPS and SOCKS network proxies deployed on infected devices, as well as to launching DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) via a module introduced in 2017 — no Necurs DDoS attacks have been detected so far.
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