How Three Guys Dismantled One of the World’s Most Powerful Botnets
If you ’re envisioning tune of computer code fly across bays of screens , amphetamine - fueled digital manhunt and dramatic , albeit rendered , explosion , I ’m sorry . When major botnets fallnowadays , it ’s the product of hard employment , longanimity , and some well - localize phone margin call . For the last duo years , security firm FireEye has been under contract to protect its clients ’ information processing system from the Mega - five hundred botnet , a 250,000 - PC - firm army of drones that ’s probably spammed you at one gunpoint or another , if not worse ....