JAKARTA - Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft and Kyrus Tech have successfully worked together in a lethal botnet Kelihos, detected by Kaspersky Lab named Hlux.Kelihos used to send billions of spam messages, steal personal data, perform DDos attacks and many other crimes, using approximately 40 thousand computers.
Microsoft has also taken legal action against 24 people associated with the infrastructure behind the botnet in a civil case that allows the closure of the domain used for botnet command and control.
Kaspersky Lab was instrumental in the closure of botnets, tracking since early 2011, when it began to collaborate with Microsoft to handle Kelihos, including sharing a live botnet tracking system with a U.S. company.
"Kaspersky Lab plays an important role in this operation by providing us a unique insight and depth on the basis of their technical analysis and understanding of the botnet Kelihos," said Richard Boscovich, senior attorney with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, as reported through official statement on Sunday (16 / 10 / 2011).
Kelihos is the botnet peer-to-peer. Botnets are made up of layers of different types of nodes: the controller, routers and workers. Controller is the engine that is assumed to be operated by the group behind the botnet.
They distribute commands to the bot and monitor the dynamic structure of peer-to-peer. The router is a machine infected with a public IP address.
They run a bot to send spam, collect email addresses, track user information from network traffic.
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