A Web fraud ' botnet ' foot inside the try
Law enforcement work group servers to cut zombie computers
By Christopher S. Stewart and
Merissa Marr
Pair
Updated December 5 , 2013 8:55 pm ET
For several months , Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.16 % investigators have patience with what the company says is a great web advertising shadowy figures behind the machine fraud , stalking down in front of their computer screens hunkered.
Then , on Thursday , they turned . Armed with a court order, and foreign law enforcement , an army of zombie computers , known as ZeroAccess MHz band is considered the brain of the European -based servers took action to cut off communication links .
Years, some $ 2.7 million from criminals fraudulently bill online advertisers a month, more than 2 million hijacked computers , or bots, around the world , which combines the power of ZeroAccess " botnet " is used , to say the investigation .
