Cybersecurity researchers have revealed on Wednesday that they have wrested control of the Kelihos.B Botnet using a dose of the botnet’s own mechanism against it.
In a briefing conducted by Kaspersky Lab’s Marco Preuss and CrowdStrike Inc.’s Tillmann Werner, it was revealed that the Kelihos.B Botnet is now under the control of Kaspersky after a “sinkholing” operation was conducted by a team comprised of Kaspersky Lab, the CrowdStrike Intelligence Team, the Honeynet Project and Dell …