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Microsoft has taken down the infamous Necurs botnet that impacted more than nine million computers worldwide. The Necurs botnet is the largest spam and malware botnet. The botnet is known for distributing several malware particularly the Locky ransomware malware, the botnet believed to be operated from Russia. The Necurs botnet was first detected in 2012, it primarily acts as a dropper for other malware, between the years 2016 to 2019 the botnet emerges as largets one and responsible for 90% of the malware spread by email worldwide. Necurs Botnet TakeDown The world’s largest botnet was taken down as a coordinated operation between Microsoft and partners across 35 countries. Microsoft  said  that within a “58-day period in our investigation, for example, we observed that one Necurs-infected computer sent a total of 3.8 million spam emails to over 40.6 million potential victims.” The botnet is known for conducting various spam attacks such as stock scams, fake ...

Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to exploit every chance to prey on internet users. Even the disastrous spread of SARS-COV-II (the virus), which causes COVID-19 (the disease), is becoming an opportunity for them to likewise spread malware or launch cyber attacks. Reason Cybersecurity recently released a  threat analysis report  detailing a new attack that takes advantage of internet users' increased craving for information about the novel coronavirus that is wreaking havoc worldwide. The malware attack specifically aims to target those who are looking for cartographic presentations of the spread of COVID-19 on the Internet, and trickes them to download and run a malicious application that, on its front-end, shows a map loaded from a legit online source but in the background compromises the computer. New Threat With An Old Malware Component The latest threat, designed to steal information from unwitting victims, was first  spotted  by MalwareHunterTeam l...