The swashbuckling crime fighters at Microsoft have taken down the botnet run by the notorious criminal mastermind
known as Aquabox. Millions of PCs were freed in the effort but the head of the crime organization is still on the loose. Heh, this stuff writes itself.
Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general counsel with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, said in an interview on Tuesday.
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