The FBI obtain a court order , which today allowed them to vote down the infernal region out of a monolithic botnet by take out a piece of malware forebode Coreflood . commonly , when someone want to shut down a botnet , they just , you know , shut it down by accept the waiter that legion it offline . But this recent legal action allow them to really salt the world , shut down the literal software behind it . The feds have n’t been allow to do this before — because the old idea was that any chemical group behind such an act would be just as shamed of hacking as those openhanded , bad botnet guys . [ Ars Technica ]
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