Microsoft serves subpoenas on Google to disrupt criminal botnet

[JMH]

Summary: New details have emerged in a massive lawsuit by Microsoft and the banking industry to take down a global botnet based on the Zeus Trojan.
Ironically, the leak occurred when Google exercised its privacy policy to notify the suspects.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-serves-subpoenas-on-google-to-disrupt-criminal-botnet/4955

Different source...

http://www.neowin.net/news/google-subpoenaed-in-microsoft-zeus-botnet-case?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neowin-main+%28Neowin+News%29

 

[Temmu]

1. zeus again.
2. international policing always dicy
3. microsoft is indeed busy fighting malware (they have to, malware is bad for their business.)
4. ed bott reporting on, um, bot nets... lol :hysterical: