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30.03.2012

How Kaspersky Lab and CrowdStrike Dismantled the Second Hlux/Kelihos Botnet: Success Story

Working alongside the CrowdStrike Intelligence Team, Dell SecureWorks and members of the Honeynet Project, Kaspersky Lab have successfully taken down the second Hlux/Kelihos botnet. Within five days of starting the takedown procedure, Kaspersky Lab had neutralised over 109,000 infected hosts. The story made it on to Dark Reading, a site dedicated to IT security news and information.

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Dark Reading is a comprehensive news and information portal that focuses on IT security, helping information security professionals manage the balance between data protection and user access. Dark Reading is a security dashboard for IT professionals who don’t have the time or the luxury of combing wirefeeds, multiple bug feeds, or vendor websites to find out what’s new or how well it works. It's audience demographic consists of a large number of decision-makers within the field.