“Today, we take our pursuit a step further. After publishing notices in two
Russian newspapers last month to notify the Rustock operators of the civil
lawsuit, we decided to augment our civil discovery efforts to identify those
responsible for controlling the notorious Rustock botnet by issuing a monetary
reward in the amount of $250,000 for new information that results in the
identification, arrest and criminal conviction of such individual(s).” – Microsoft
The Rustock botnet is responsible for a great deal of cyber crime, spam (the
botnet has capacity for 30 billion spam mails every day), dodgy pharmaceuticals,
counterfeit stuff and pirated software. In order to bring down the entire botnet Microsoft is now turning to the legal
system, and the public.
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