The Ramnit botnet has been shut down in a joint effort by the Europol and the security firms Symantec, Microsoft, and Anubis Networks.

Another success For the Europol and its allies Microsoft, Symantec, and Anubis Networks. The organizations in a joint effort have shut down command and control servers of the popular Ramnitbotnet. The Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce* (J-CAT) and CERT-EU also provided a significant support to the operations. According to cyber security experts, the Ramnit is one of the world’s biggest botnets, which infected up to 3.2 million machines worldwide.

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