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Microsoft Squelches Trickbot Ransomware Network
2020-10-13 13:17:00| TechNewsWorld
An outlaw online network that's been used to infect millions of computers with ransomware has been disrupted by Microsoft. The company announced Monday that, together with telecommunications providers around the world, it was able to cut off the infrastructure used by the Trickbot botnet so it could no longer be used to initiate new infections or activate ransomware already planted on computer systems. [ more ]
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