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From: Julius Wong	10/12/2020 4:41:29 PM
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Microsoft, Symantec take down ransomware giant ahead of U.S. elections Oct. 12, 2020 11:57 AM ET\|About: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)\|By: Brandy Betz, SA News Editor Microsoft's ( MSFT +1.9%) Defender team and Broadcom's ( AVGO +1.2%) Symantec were among a coalition of tech companies revealing how they took down the TrickBot malware botnet, which has infected over 1 million computers. The companies spent months collecting more than 125,000 TrickBot malware samples to find all of the servers used to control infected computers. "With this evidence, the court granted approval for Microsoft and our partners to disable the IP addresses, render the content stored on the command and control servers inaccessible, suspend all services to the botnet operators, and block any effort by the TrickBot operators to purchase or lease additional servers," says Microsoft in a blog post. Microsoft used copyright law to argue its case since TrickBot uses Microsoft code. The tech giant says the seizures and deals with telecoms will keep TrickBot from deploying new software or activating currently installed software. But Symantec points out that TrickBot has control points in at least 20 other countries, which aren't bound by the U.S. court order. Microsoft notes that the U.S. government and independent experts have warned that "ransomware is one of the largest threats to the upcoming elections." "Adversaries can use ransomware to infect a computer system used to maintain voter rolls or report on election-night results, seizing those systems at a prescribed hour optimized to sow chaos and distrust," says Microsoft.

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