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    Microsoft disrupts a botnet that infected 9 million computers

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    Christine Fisher
    Christine Fisher
    03.10.2020

    Today, Microsoft and partners from 35 countries took steps to disrupt a botnet behind the world's largest cybercrime network. The botnet, Necurs, has infected an estimated nine million computers worldwide, and it's one of the largest spam email networks, generating as many as 3.8 million spam emails in a two-month period.